Bottom-up eBPF

Brandon Cook
Nov 6 · 12 min read

With all the articles on eBPF it’s starting to remind me of Monads: people seem to either understand them fully or not at all, and will happily write articles about them either way. I’m probably still in the latter group even after years using them in Haskell. Ask me to invent a Monad? Forget about it.

The issue I’ve had with a lot of the bpf material out there is that the majority is introductory. The remainder seems to be for higher level frameworks such as BCC but, of course, I haven’t clicked on every link I’ve found. The higher level frameworks are going to take a top-down approach because the…

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