Surgical extraction · masterclass in eBPF observability.
Nov 14, 2026
10:00 – 12:30 SGT
Interactive technical lab
Session abstract
Modern distributed systems demand observability that operates at the speed of the kernel. Surgical Extraction moves beyond the overhead of traditional sidecars and instrumentation agents. We dive into the internal mechanics of eBPF-based telemetry to achieve sub-millisecond insight without perturbing the host system.
Participants will learn to implement low-overhead hooks into kernel-level events, bypassing the user-space context switching that often masks the very latency deltas they seek to measure. We focus on the architectural discipline required to reconstruct complex logic schemas from raw packet and syscall streams.
The faculty
Dr Lena Zhang
Head of observabilityFormer Linux kernel maintainer with 15+ years experience in performance engineering and low-latency systems optimisation.
Erik Vance
Chief systems architectDistributed systems and large-scale telemetry infrastructure. Lead architect of the Tracefox core engine.
Curriculum
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