Post by Aiden McElroy

🚀 Day 30: Stop Letting EDR Eat Your Production CPU. We just published our newest deep-dive article on LinkedIn, and this one goes straight after an unglamorous problem every SRE faces: Resource Starvation. Ask any infrastructure engineer why they dread installing traditional enterprise security agents on their core database or application nodes, and they’ll tell you the truth: legacy tools are resource hogs. They run heavy userspace processes that trigger massive context-switching loops, easily devouring 10% to 15% of your CPU when system activity spikes. When we built the Watch Core Agent, we engineered around a strict physical constraint: The runtime footprint must stay under 1% CPU utilization, even when parsing 50,000 system events per second. 👉 Read the full technical article here on LinkedIn to see how we achieved ultra-low overhead telemetry. ⚡ The Blueprint for Zero-Bloat Edge Telemetry Bypassing Auditd with eBPF Ring Buffers: We don't tail slow log files or rely on standard userspace event daemons. Watch uses in-kernel eBPF probes attached natively to system calls (execve, connect, openat) that stream telemetry into shared-memory ring buffers in microseconds. Eradicating Garbage Collection Spikes: To keep our TypeScript/Node.js systemd daemon completely flat, we use strict object pooling and buffer recyclers. By adhering to our strict 4-dependency constraint (ws, zod, node-pty, dotenv), we eliminated unpredictable language runtime CPU spikes. Edge Frequency Dampening: If a rogue microservice or health check loops a million times, Cortex V2 compresses the signal instantly at the edge, counting the recurrences instead of overloading our high-performance Reasoner engine with duplicate noise. 🛠️ Open Architecture & Instant Sandboxing We build Watch in public for Linux-heavy teams with real production risk—DevOps leads, sysadmins, and SREs who refuse to trade system performance for security visibility. You don't need to hop on a sales call, book a calendar slot, or fill out an enterprise qualification form to see how our engine functions. Check out our architecture endpoints on the newly dropped /docs page, review our blueprint components on StackShare, and launch our formless Server View emulator to see the Cortex engine safely neutralize threats in real time. 👇 🔗 Test the live, formless emulator instantly: https://watch.alsopss.com 🔗 Explore the open developer API documentation: https://lnkd.in/gSUzwJHs 🔗 Review our stack blueprint: https://lnkd.in/gUCJ44p6 #Utah #SiliconSlopes #SRE #LinuxSecurity #Infrastructure #DevOps #eBPF #SystemsEngineering #PerformanceOptimization #ThunderDB #DistributedSystems #Cybersecurity #BuildInPublic #AutonomousDefense