eBPF: The Next Power Tool of SREs

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 11:00 am11:45 am

Michael Kehoe, Confluent

Abstract: 

Created in 2013, eBPF is a newer Linux kernel technology that will revolutionize SRE's ability to observe, serve and protect the infrastructure we're responsible for. While eBPF has the potential to completely change the way we do our daily work, only a minority of companies are taking advantage of its power. This session will be an introduction to eBPF that will allow the attendee to see its uses and capabilities first hand, and see how to get started using it.

Michael Kehoe, Confluent

Michael is an author, speaker, and Sr Staff Security engineer currently architecting Confluent’s cloud security. Previously, Michael worked at LinkedIn’s, architecting the company’s move to Microsoft Azure. Before graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), Michael interned at NASA Ames Research Center building small-satellites known as Phonesats. Michael has spoken at numerous events all over the world and in 2018 was a co-author of the book “Reducing MTTD for High Severity Incidents” and the recently released “Cloud Native Architecture with Azure”.

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BibTeX
@conference {278142,
author = {Michael Kehoe},
title = {{eBPF}: The Next Power Tool of {SREs}},
year = {2022},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}

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