By: Ania Kapuścińska (@lambdanis) Edited by: Shaun Mouton (@sdmouton ) Like many engineers, for a long time I’ve thought of the Linux kernel as a black box. I've been using Linux daily for many years - but my usage was mostly limited to following the installation guide, interacting with the command line interface and writing bash scripts. Some time ago I heard about eBPF (extended BPF). The first