I've been playing around with the idea that we are moving from a world of centralized intelligence to decentralized intelligence and eBPF is help leading that charge. For example in observability, instead of collecting everything and filtering later, we filter first in the kernel, at the source. Irrelevant events are discarded before they even leave the system and only the meaningful data makes it through.
With the amount of noise and data we have today, it's the difference between observability working quietly in the background and observability taking your system down with it. I'll be giving a talk on the same topic in a month at KCD Utrecht and would be happy to discuss the idea in person there whether you agree or disagree. In the meantime, I have KubeCon CfPs to review, ping me if you need help on your talk about Cilium or eBPF, so let’s 🐝 -gin.
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20th May 2025
I've been playing around with the idea that we are moving from a world of centralized intelligence to decentralized intelligence and eBPF is help leading that charge. For example in observability, instead of collecting everything and filtering later, we filter first in the kernel, at the source. Irrelevant events are discarded before they even leave the system and only the meaningful data makes it through.
With the amount of noise and data we have today, it's the difference between observability working quietly in the background and observability taking your system down with it. I'll be giving a talk on the same topic in a month at KCD Utrecht and would be happy to discuss the idea in person there whether you agree or disagree. In the meantime, I have KubeCon CfPs to review, ping me if you need help on your talk about Cilium or eBPF, so let’s 🐝 -gin.
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