# Kemal Akkoyun

> Software Infrastructure Engineer, System Programmer, and Performance Engineer writing about observability, profiling, eBPF, Go, and performance engineering.
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You can find [more information about Kemal on this page](/about/index.md).

## About

- [About Kemal](/about/index.md) - Professional background, journey, and expertise
- [What I'm doing now](/now/index.md) - Current activities and focus areas
- [Uses](/uses/index.md) - Tools and software in use
- [Misc](/misc/index.md) - Everything else

## Key Topics

- [Observability](/tags/observability/index.md) - Monitoring, instrumentation, and system visibility
- [Profiling](/tags/profiling/index.md) - Performance profiling and continuous profiling
- [eBPF](/tags/ebpf/index.md) - Linux kernel observability and instrumentation
- [Go](/tags/go/index.md) - Go programming, toolchain, and runtime
- [Performance](/tags/performance/index.md) - Performance engineering and optimization
- [Open Source](/tags/open-source/index.md) - Open source contributions and projects
- [Blog](/tags/blog/index.md) - General blog posts and reflections

## Content Sections

- [Posts](/posts/index.md) - Technical blog posts
- [Notes](/notes/index.md) - Short-form notes and thoughts
- [Talks](/categories/talks/index.md) - Conference talks and presentations

## Recent Posts

- [podcast: Cup o' Go — Instrumentation and Blast Radius](/posts/cup-o-go-podcast/index.md)
- [OpenTelemetry Go Compile-time Instrumentation v1](/posts/go-compile-time-instrumentation-v1/index.md)
- [Mentorship in Open Source — Part 3: Stewardship Inside OpenTelemetry](/posts/mentorship-in-open-source-part-3-stewardship/index.md)
- [Mentorship in Open Source — Part 2: The Mentee Playbook](/posts/mentorship-in-open-source-part-2-mentee-playbook/index.md)
- [Why I Keep Mentoring in Open Source](/posts/mentorship-in-open-source/index.md)
- [From talk to docs: The Zen of Prometheus](/posts/from-talk-to-docs-the-zen-of-prometheus/index.md)
- [Measuring Software Performance: Why Your Benchmarks Are Probably Lying](/posts/fosdem-2026-measuring-software-performance/index.md)
- [Auto-Instrumenting Go: From eBPF to USDT Probes](/posts/fosdem-2026-auto-instrumenting-go/index.md)
- [OTel Unplugged EU 2026: Field Notes from the Instrumentation Frontier](/posts/otel-unplugged-eu-2026/index.md)
- [FOSDEM 2026: Even Bigger, Even Better](/posts/fosdem-2026/index.md)