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title: 'Episode 23: cilium/ebpf'

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# Episode 23: cilium/ebpf

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[YouTube](https://youtu.be/8z2R13GRi5g)
1 October 2021

with [Timo Beckers](https://github.com/ti-mo), hosted by [Liz Rice](https://twitter.com/lizrice)

## Headlines

* [Happy birthday eBPF!](https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210926203409.kn3gzz2eaodflels@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com/), Alexei Starovoitov
* [Below, a time travelling resource monitoring tool](https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/09/21/below-time-travelling-resource-monitoring-tool/), Daniel Xu
* LPC's BPF & Networking Summit [slides + videos are online](https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/sessions/120/#all)
  * [Watching the super powers](https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/947/), John Fastabend
    * Related [LWN article](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/870269/7ec05ed3a8d02d3d/)
  * [BPF-datapath extensions for Kubernetes workloads](https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/953/), Daniel Borkmann & Martynas Pumputis
  * [Improving the eBPF Developer experience with Rust](https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/936/), Dave Tucker & Alessandro Decina
  * [Defragmenting the Loader Landscape](https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/937/) Timo Beckers & Lorenz Bauer

## cilium/ebpf

* Library: https://github.com/cilium/ebpf
* [Examples](https://github.com/cilium/ebpf/tree/master/examples)
* [Pros & cons of ringbuf vs perfbuf](https://nakryiko.com/posts/bpf-ringbuf)



