InfoQ - Observability

Podcast: How eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe Inside the Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way

Dan Fineran — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Dan Fineran explores how eBPF has evolved far beyond its roots in packet filtering into a robust, safe way to extend the Linux kernel. He explains how the eBPF "verifier", the security guardrail, enables implementation of deep observability and networking without the risks of traditional kernel modules or the slow upstreaming process.

By Dan Fineran

Inside Atlassian’s Forge Billing Architecture for Distributed Usage Tracking at Scale

Leela Kumili — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:21:00 GMT

Atlassian details the Forge billing platform built for usage-based pricing across its cloud ecosystem. It processes large-scale usage events with correct attribution, deduplication, and aggregation using a streaming pipeline, idempotent processing, and layered storage to enable accurate billing, near real-time visibility, and reliable reconciliation across distributed services.

By Leela Kumili

Slack Eliminates SSH in EMR Pipelines, Migrates 700+ Jobs to Rest-Based Architecture

Leela Kumili — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:39:00 GMT

Slack modernized its data platform by replacing SSH based execution in Amazon EMR pipelines with a REST driven orchestration layer called Quarry. The migration covered 700 plus Airflow operators, improving security, reliability, and observability while eliminating direct SSH access across production clusters and enabling a server side job lifecycle model.

By Leela Kumili