Recently at I gave a short talk titled "Linux at Cloudflare". The talk ended up being mostly about BPF. It seems, no matter the question - BPF is the answer. Here is a transcript of a slightly adjusted version of that talk.
eBPF can't count?!
It is unlikely we can tell you anything new about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF for short, if you've read all the great man pages, docs, guides, and some of our blogs out there. But we can tell you a war story, who doesn't like those?
Introducing ebpf_exporter
Introducing ebpf_exporter, enabling low level eBPF based metric collection from Linux kernel into Prometheus.
Tracing System CPU on Debian Stretch
How an innocent OS upgrade triggered a cascade of issues and forced us into tracing Linux networking internals.
eBPF, Sockets, Hop Distance and manually writing eBPF assembly
A friend gave me an interesting task: extract IP TTL values from TCP connections established by a userspace program. This seemingly simple task quickly exploded into an epic Linux system programming hack.