The tongue-in-cheek title refers to the fact that eBPF can be a shortcut to programming inside the kernel. Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London explains how this networking tool has morphed into more.

Richard's notes:

The Github link: https://github.com/richardclegg/ebpf_...

A tutorial if you want to find more:
https://play.instruqt.com/embed/isova...

This is written by an expert but a bit dated now:
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/201...

libbpf is useful:
https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf

I used code from here by Brendan Gregg in my example:
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc


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