This post is about attending Laravel Live Japan 2026 as one of the LT speakers.
Thank you for the past two days! I'm planning to write a blog post about it over the weekend! (about my talk, communication and something #inspired) #LaravelLiveJp
— egmc (@EGMC) 2026年5月27日
My another blog post in Japanese is here though this post is not same one(like "hey xxx, translate it into English").
Tried to write it by my own word anyway.
LT
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As the title says, my LT is all about "what can we do using eBPF?", not "what is eBPF".
I asked several artisans/PHPers at the venue if they knew eBPF, and most of them answered "no".
I really hope this talk somehow inspires some people there, and serves as a good chance to ask your go-to AI agent something like "can we do this using eBPF?"
I have several reasons1 for encouraging more and more people to use eBPF.
Maybe I'm biased, but eventually it comes down to "Just for Fun".
I like this technology — it's kind of a superpower — and hopefully you'll like it as well.
#inspired
Overall, the level of the presentations was extremely high.
The live-coding rate in particular was high, and including how the presenters commanded the stage, there were tons of sessions where I thought "wow, that's amazing."
Personally, the ones that struck me as especially impressive were Nuno's session and everyone's favorite Marcel's session on making music with PHP.
To say more on the "inspired" front, I had a "wait, there's a ton of PHP I don't know about..." moment, and that was truly big.
Native PHP especially made me go "what on earth is this?" — using libphp? How does that work? I was so interested in it. And there was a bunch of stuff like Hypervel, chasing the kind of performance where you go "do you even need PHP for that?" There were so many worlds I didn't know about, and it was fascinating.
Then I also thought, "tracing those runtimes looks a bit difficult :)"
Communication
I have attended some international events, though I think Laravel Live Japan is the place where I've been able to talk to the most international guests .
I don't really know why it happened, but I think it was probably due to the overall atmosphere created by the event's structure and the venue.
There was always conversation going on in the conference hallways, in front of the entrance, during lunch, and even on the way to the after-party, making for a truly enjoyable time. Thank you to everyone who shared their stories!


















