Kill the Sidecar: How eBPF is Slashing Kubernetes Infrastructure Costs in 2026

The 'sidecar tax' is becoming an unsustainable burden for Kubernetes clusters at scale, leading infrastructure teams to shift logic from user-space proxies directly into the kernel. By adopting eBPF-based tools, organizations can achieve massive memory savings and latency improvements without the need for manual SDK instrumentation or application code changes.