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No More Blue Fridays: How eBPF is already being adopted to prevent kernel crashes.

Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology. Windows computers around the world encountered blue-screens-of-death and boot loops, causing outages for hospitals, airlines, banks, grocery stores, media broadcasters, and more. That said, as a new technology eBPF has had some bugs in its management code, including a Linux kernel panic discovered by the same security company in the news today.

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