"For the next 10 years, eBPF is going to be the strategic platform of choice for infrastructure developers." That is the line that really stuck with me from Daniel Borkmann's keynote at Open Source Summit. For the past 10 years, the community has been putting all of the pieces in place to make eBPF the default choice when looking to add new functionality in the kernel.
Now comes the fun part, pushing beyond early adopters into mainstream systems engineering. The building blocks are all there with a stable ISA, mature verifier, growing ecosystem, and real-world deployments at massive scale. The conversation is shifting from “can eBPF do this?” to “how do we best use it?”
If the first decade was about proving the technology, the next one is about using it to reshape how we build and operate systems from the inside out. I have to put the finishing touches on the CiliumCon schedule which is coming out tomorrow so let’s 🐝 -gin.
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12th August 2025
"For the next 10 years, eBPF is going to be the strategic platform of choice for infrastructure developers." That is the line that really stuck with me from Daniel Borkmann's keynote at Open Source Summit. For the past 10 years, the community has been putting all of the pieces in place to make eBPF the default choice when looking to add new functionality in the kernel.
Now comes the fun part, pushing beyond early adopters into mainstream systems engineering. The building blocks are all there with a stable ISA, mature verifier, growing ecosystem, and real-world deployments at massive scale. The conversation is shifting from “can eBPF do this?” to “how do we best use it?”
If the first decade was about proving the technology, the next one is about using it to reshape how we build and operate systems from the inside out. I have to put the finishing touches on the CiliumCon schedule which is coming out tomorrow so let’s 🐝 -gin.
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