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A kernel-level technology for running efficient programmable logic in the Linux networking and observability stack.

Why it's here

Placed in Trial: 8 article(s) of evidence from 3 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 2 in the last 30 days. Confidence 65%.

Evidence (8)

  • 6Hacker News·10/3/2026breakthrough
    FTL introduces a userspace operating system for clouds

    FTL is a new cloud operating system design that implements most OS functions as a userspace library inside each container. It aims to provide stronger isolation than traditional Linux containers while remaining compatible with Linux binaries and supporting Linux-style system calls through a minimal kernel interface. The project is positioned as a way to add and update OS features more safely, without requiring bare-metal deployment.

  • 6The New Stack·9/11/2026framework_update
    AWS Lambda rebuilds flow logging with eBPF and Rust

    AWS Lambda describes how it replaced an older network-flow capture system with a new pipeline built in eBPF and Rust. The redesign was needed to keep complete, correctly attributed logs across thousands of Firecracker microVMs per host while minimizing overhead at Lambda scale.

  • 4InfoQ·9/3/2026research
    Scaling Low-Overhead Instrumentation

    Brian Martin describes the performance costs of metrics libraries and outlines techniques for keeping instrumentation lightweight at scale. He highlights atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding, lock-free histograms, and eBPF integration as ways to preserve observability without significantly affecting system performance.

  • 4Hacker News·8/23/2026research
    LLMs make hard, fast programming more attractive

    Armin Ronacher argues that LLMs reduce the cost of working in unfamiliar programming languages and lower the friction of choosing “hard” technologies. He notes that this is encouraging more projects to use fast, small, and performance-focused tools such as Rust and Zig, as well as lower-level areas like DWARF, eBPF, and custom networking or crypto work.

  • 6InfoQ·8/21/2026security
    eBPF Secures AI and API Traffic in Kubernetes

    Dan Finneran outlines the risks of unowned AI-generated code in production and shows how eBPF can intercept AI API traffic in Kubernetes. The approach enables prompt filtering, model swapping, token limits, and syscall restrictions without changing application source code or restarting containers.

  • 4Hacker News·7/28/2026research
    How to Profile eBPF Code

    The article shows a simple benchmarking approach for measuring the overhead of an eBPF file-open hook using a minimal C test harness. It also explains how to configure perf and kernel settings so BPF JIT symbols can be resolved, making it easier to analyze hotspots in the eBPF program.

  • 3Hacker News·7/25/2026research
    Tokyo museum preserves extinct media devices

    The Extinct Media Museum in Tokyo is a private collection focused on media formats and devices that are obsolete or disappearing, including cameras, recorders, typewriters, PCs, and mobile devices. Visitors can handle exhibits, photograph and scan them, and access a large catalog library and database of the collection.

  • 5The New Stack·7/17/2026framework_update
    Lessons from running Kubernetes controllers at scale

    The article explains how Kubernetes controllers turn declarative intent into enforced state, and why that becomes harder at large scale when caches lag, objects churn, and correctness depends on a full system view. It focuses on two Amazon EKS controllers: the Network Policy Controller for in-cluster traffic enforcement and the VPC Resource Controller for assigning AWS security groups to selected pods.