James Laverack

James is a software engineer specialising in cloud native software and distributed systems. Currently he's a Senior Solutions Architect at Isovalent. Previously, he's worked at Jetstack as a Staff Solutions Engineer, and an engineer in fintech before.

James was on the Kubernetes release team from v1.18 though v1.24, culminating in being the Release Team Lead for Kubernetes v1.24 "Stargazer" 🔭. He's also served as the Emeritus Adviser for Kubernetes v1.27 "Chill Vibes" 🦥.

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03-17
10:15
30min
How eBPF Actually Works
James Laverack

You’ve seen the eBPF architecture diagram many times now in presentations: “…and then we compile some C code and attach it to a function in the kernel…”, before moving on. Have you ever wondered what that really means, and what actually happens when you do that? This talk is for you.

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