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I mean, their runtime models might share similarities but eBPF is not meant to be a general purpose machine, it is kinda a kernel add-on for programmable tracin

I mean, their runtime models might share similarities but eBPF is not meant to be a general purpose machine, it is kinda a kernel add-on for programmable tracing.

cthalupa 7y ago
>it is kinda a kernel add-on for programmable tracing. Well, that's the thing I personally mostly use it for via bpftrace and bcc, but that's not the only thing. It's being used for a lot of networking related things too. XDP, CloudFlare uses it for a lot of their DDoS mitigation, etc.