Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
Zeroserve is a new, zero-configuration web server that uses eBPF programs to handle request routing, authentication, and proxying. By packaging websites into a single tarball, it eliminates the need for traditional configuration files and simplifies deployment.
Why it matters
It offers a modern, high-performance alternative to legacy servers like Nginx by collapsing complex configuration logic into a single, programmable eBPF-based workflow.
#tech #zeroserve Disclaimer: This article is co-authored with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8. zeroserve is a small, fast, zero-config HTTPS server. You hand it a tarball of a website and it serves it - over HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3, with hot reload and a tiny resident footprint. The twist is that you can drop eBPF programs into the tarball and they run on every request, in userspace, as sandboxed middleware - rewriting, authenticating, and rate-limiting requests, or reverse-proxying them to a backend when you want it to act as a gateway in front of your app.
Technical product announcement with no political or social agenda.
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