Ebpf

Service mesh adoption dropped from 50 to 42 percent as the ecosystem pivots away from sidecars. This guide covers Istio Ambient Mesh GA, Cilium eBPF mesh after Cisco's Isovalent acquisition, Linkerd's licensing controversy, AWS App Mesh deprecation, Kubernetes Gateway API, zero-trust networking, and the convergence reshaping cloud-native communication.

Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) in 2026 covers the full landscape — Pod Security Standards, supply chain security with SBOM and Sigstore, eBPF runtime monitoring with Falco and Tetragon, network policies with Cilium, secret management, RBAC hardening, CIS Benchmarks, policy-as-code with OPA Gatekeeper and Kyverno, KSPM platforms from Aqua to Wiz, multi-cluster governance, and incident response with real breach case studies.

A practitioner's guide to eBPF-powered performance tuning methodologies including the USE and TSA methods, bpftrace cookbook recipes, flame graph analysis, database query tracing, JIT language profiling, memory leak detection, I/O analysis, and production debugging playbooks for 2026.

A comprehensive deep-dive into eBPF technology for cloud-native observability in 2026, covering kernel-level tracing, network visibility, security monitoring, continuous profiling, and production deployment patterns with tools like Cilium, Tetragon, Grafana Beyla, and OpenTelemetry integration.

A comprehensive deep-dive into eBPF for cloud-native runtime security in 2026, covering syscall monitoring, container escape detection, file integrity monitoring, process lineage tracking, network security enforcement, cryptojacking detection, compliance auditing, and building a layered eBPF security stack with Tetragon, Falco, and KubeArmor.

A deep technical exploration of eBPF for high-performance networking and performance engineering in cloud-native environments, covering XDP, tc BPF, eBPF-based load balancing, service mesh data planes, cloud provider CNI integrations, and production case studies from Meta, Cloudflare, and Netflix.

The definitive 2026 guide to service mesh in cloud-native architectures. Covers Istio Ambient Mesh, Linkerd 2.17, Cilium Service Mesh with eBPF, sidecar vs sidecarless architectures, mTLS zero-trust networking, Gateway API, multi-cluster mesh, traffic management patterns, observability, and migration strategies for production Kubernetes environments.

A comprehensive deep-dive into OpenTelemetry in 2026 covering architecture, the four telemetry signals, Collector pipelines, auto-instrumentation, Kubernetes integration, vendor ecosystems, sampling strategies, eBPF, migration paths, cost management, and production best practices.