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Texas Linux Festival 2026

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Location: Austin, Texas

Speakers: Peter Zaitsev

Texas Linux Festival 2026 runs November 6–7 in Austin, Texas. It is a community-run Linux and open source conference — operators, developers, and the people who ship the tools they run in production.

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Using eBPF for Kubernetes Observability Without the Overhead

Speaker: Peter Zaitsev

Getting metrics, logs, and traces out of infrastructure usually means instrumenting everything and paying for it in CPU and complexity. Peter walks through how eBPF can collect that telemetry from container activity — network calls, filesystem operations, and related signals — with much less overhead, and how to use it when you are troubleshooting Kubernetes in the real world.

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If you are in Austin for TXLF, find Peter between sessions. Bring the observability problem you are stuck on — that conversation is usually more useful than the slide deck. ∎

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Peter Zaitsev

Peter Zaitsev

Co‑founder of Percona and one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization. Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two‑person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. A serial entrepreneur, he co‑founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. He is a co‑author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at open source database conferences and has contributed articles to outlets such as Fortune and DZone.

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