The tongue-in-cheek title refers to the fact that eBPF can be a shortcut to programming inside the kernel. Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London explains how this networking tool has morphed into more. Richard's notes: The Github link: https://github.com/richardclegg/ebpf_testing/ A tutorial if you want to find more: https://play.instruqt.com/embed/isovalent/tracks/ebpf-getting-started?token=em_9nxLzhlV41gb3rKM&show_challenges=true This is written by an expert but a bit dated now: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-01-01/learn-ebpf-tracing.html libbpf is useful: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf I used code from here by Brendan Gregg in my example: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at http://www.bradyharan.com/