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Buzzing Across Space: The Illustrated Children’s Guide to eBPF
My conference presentations that have recordings in chronological order:
From Projects to Ecosystems: Lessons from the eBPF Foundation | Linux Plumbers Conference 2025
Simplifying the Networking and Security Stack With Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon | KubeCon EU 2025
Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF | KubeCon NA 2024
Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF | KubeCon India 2024
Buzzing Across the eBPF Landscape and Into the Hive | Open Source Summit North America
Building an Open Source Community One Friend at a Time | FOSDEM Community Dev Room 2024
Just Buzz or Real Byte? eBPF in Cloud Native | KubeCon China 2023
Scaling up and Scaling Out Networking, Observability, and Security with Cilium | KubeCon China 2023
Buzzing Across the Cloud Native Landscape with eBPF | KCD Zurich 2023
Going for Graduation: Crossing the Chasm | KubeCon EU 2023
The 10 Biggest Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make In Open Source | KubeCon NA 2022
Kubernetes Community Days For Fun And For Community Profit | KubeCon NA 2022
Cilium Updates, News And Roadmap | KubeCon NA 2022
Closing Remarks | Cloud Native Telco Day EU 2022
Composability is to Software as Compounding Interest is to Finance | KubeCon EU 2022
The 7 Biggest Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make in Open Source | DoK Students Day 2022
Building Your Brand with CNCF | KubeCon NA 2021
Building for the next 100,000 Contributors | ContainerDays 2021
Voyaging Cloud Native Seas | Enterprise Cloud Native Summit 2021
Building Your Brand with CNCF AMA | KubeCon EU 2021
Accelerating Drug Discovery by Competitive Cooperation Through Open Source | KubeCon EU 2020
Kubernetes Track: Explaining Kubernetes Business Benefits without Code | Cloud Native Warsaw
Cloud Native: the Business Side | ContainerDays 2019
Kubernetes for Non Coders| DevOps Gathering 2019
eBPF Announces Support for Tolkien Ring | ebpf.io
Rethinking System Architecture: The Rise of Distributed Intelligence with eBPF | The New Stack
Runtime Enforcement: Software Security After the Supply Chain Ends | Security Boulevard
A Practical Guide to eBPF Licensing: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the GPL | ebpf.io
Seccomp, eBPF, and the Importance of Kernel System Call Filtering | DZone
Architecting Observability in a Cloud Native World With eBPF | Cloud Native Now
Performant and Programmable Telco Networking with eBPF | The New Stack
From IP to identity: making cattle out of pets in cloud native | cncf.io
The Cilium Story So Far | Cloud Native Now
Announcing eBPF 2.0: excelBPF™ | ebpf.io
The Future of Service Mesh is Networking | InfoQ
How eBPF unlocks cloud native innovation | InfoWorld
Why eBPF for All Means People Don’t Need to Care about eBPF | ebpf.io
The Compounding (Business) Value of Composable Ecosystems | InfoQ
Edge Computing Requires Cloud Native Thinking Today | TFIR
From Pets to X-as-Code: Enabling Control and Predictability for ITOps at Scale | DevOps.com
How to Treat Your Kubernetes Clusters Like Cattle, Not Pets | The New Stack
Open Source Friday with Cilium | Github Livestream
Interview with Bill Mulligan | eBPFChirp
Unlock Linux superpowers with eBPF, with Bill Mulligan - HS#28
eBPF: How to Pimp Your Kernel | Linux Inlaws
Cilium and eBPF, with Bill Mulligan | Kubernetes Podcast from Google
eBPF and Cilium Breakdown | The tangent
Stories about how eBPF is used today | DevOps Sauna
Ask me anything with Bill Mulligan from Isovalent
Cilium and eBPF | Cloud Control
Best Practices to Build Community | The New Stack
Is your Kubernetes cluster a pet? | Cloud Unfiltered
Automating Infrastructure that Dates Back 100 Years | The New Stack
Kicking off your career in cloud native | Kunal Kushwaha
Experience Talks: Cloud Native | The Hustlers
Cloud Computing as a Carrier | E-LIFE
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