GopherCon 2025: Strategies for Auto-Instrumenting Go Applications Without Code Changes - Hannah Kim

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This GopherCon talk explores strategies for auto-instrumenting Go applications without modifying source code, comparing eBPF-based solutions, compile-time instrumentation, and runtime techniques like shared library injection and binary trampolines. It provides benchmark-driven analysis of trade-offs between observability, performance overhead, and deployment complexity, with focus on OpenTelemetry integration and upcoming Go runtime improvements for function interception.