eBPF

6 engineers on Hacker News describe using eBPF first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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6first-hand users
6in production
endorse 2mixed 0regret 0uses, no opinion

“we've demonstrated that it works well for all of Facebook's load balancers, container systems, etc.”

endorse · production · alexgartrell · 2020-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“found it to be an incredibly technology that makes high performance networking extremely accessible.”

endorse · production · ilovecaching · 2018-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Later we moved to ptrace and ebpf.”

neutral · production · entelechy · 2025-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use eBPF to achieve non-intrusive (we call it `zero-code`) observability without modifying any application code”

neutral · production · sharangxy · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use eBPF to achieve non-intrusive (we call it zero-code) observability without modifying any application code”

neutral · production · sharangxy · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been doing eBPF in production for a while as well, but our control plane is Go / C.”

neutral · production · sargun · 2018-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?