Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:29PM
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Because serverless still needs to run on a machine, and that machine is typically at least one of 1. shared with other users, in which case giving you kernel access would be a security issue, or 2. ephemeral (firecracker VM or such) in which case eBPF is... technically possible, but not nearly as useful (you go from "this server has had X events of type Y over the last 24 hours" to "this VM had X events happen in the 590ms before it was destroyed").
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Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
by xiphias2 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:49PM
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I see, I thought it could be used for some simple thing, like a load balancer / proxy with a bit of logic in it, but I guess it's too constrainted to do something useful as a server