Merge pull request #192 from yp969803/issue191

added blog for lfx mentorship tcp long conn

Author: kmesh-bot

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+---
+title: "Experience of LFX Mentorship - Kmesh Tcp Long Connection Metrics"
+summary: "Selected as a mentee at Kmesh for LFX 2025, worked on metrics collection for persistent connections."
+authors:
+  - yp969803
+tags: [LFX-2025]
+date: 2025-05-28T11:11:23+00:00
+last_update:
+  date: 2025-05-28T11:11:23+00:00
+sidebar_label : "LFX-2025 Tcp Long Connection Metrics"
+---
+
+## Introduction
+
+Hello readers, I am Yash, a final Year student from India. I love building cool stuffs and solving real world problems. I’ve been working in the cloud-native space for the past three years, exploring technologies like Kubernetes, Cilium, Istio, and more.
+
+I successfully completed my mentorship with Kmesh during the LFX 2025 Term-1 program, which was an enriching and invaluable experience. Over the past three months, I gained significant knowledge and hands-on experience while contributing to the project. In this blog, I’ve documented my mentorship journey and the work I accomplished as a mentee.
+
+## LFX Mentorship Program – Overview
+
+The LFX Mentorship Program, run by the Linux Foundation, is designed to help students and early-career professionals gain hands-on experience in open source development by working on real-world projects under the guidance of experienced mentors
+
+Participants contribute to high-impact projects hosted by foundations like CNCF, LF AI, LF Edge, and more. The program typically runs in 3 terms throughout the year, each lasting about three months.
+
+[More-info](https://mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/#projects_all)
+
+## My Acceptance
+
+I am a regular opensource contributor and loves contributing to opensource. My interests heavily aligned with clound-native technologies. I was familiar with popular mentorship programs like LFX and GSoC, which are designed to help students get started in the open source world.
+Based on my work the Kmesh community also promoted for the member of Kmesh
+I had made up my mind to apply for LFX 2025 Term-1 and began exploring projects in early February. The projects under CNCF for LFX are listed in the [cncf/mentoring](https://github.com/cncf/mentoring) GitHub repository. I came across the [Kmesh](https://github.com/kmesh-net/kmesh) project, a newly added CNCF sandbox project participating in LFX for the first time.
+I found the Kmesh project particularly exciting because of the problem it addresses—providing a sidecarless service mesh data plane. This approach can greatly benefit the community by improving performance and reducing overhead.
+
+Kmesh came up with 4 projects in term-1, i selected [long-connection-metrics](https://github.com/kmesh-net/kmesh/issues/1211) projects as it allows me to works with eBPF a already have a prior experience on working with eBPF.
+
+I began exploring the Kmesh project by reading the documentation and contributing to Good First Issues. As I became more involved, the mentors started to take notice. I also submitted a [proposal](https://github.com/kmesh-net/kmesh/blob/main/docs/proposal/tcp_long_connection_metrics.md) for the long connection metrics project.
+
+In late February, I received an email from LFX notifying me of my selection.
+![email](./images/acceptance-email.png)
+
+## Project Workthrough
+
+The `tcp long connection metrics` project aims to implement access logs and metrics for TCP long connections, developing a continuous monitoring and reporting mechanisms that captures detailed, real-time data throughout the lifetime of long-lived TCP connections.
+
+Ebpf hooks are used to collect connection stats such as send/received bytes, packets losts, retransmissions etc.
+
+![design](./images/tcp_long_conn_design.png)
+
+[More-information](https://kmesh.net/docs/transpot-layer/l4-metrics)
+
+## Mentorship Experience
+
+The Kmesh maintainers were always available to help me with any doubts, whether on Slack or GitHub. Additionally, there is a community meeting held regularly every Thursday, where I could ask questions and discuss various topics. I’ve learned a lot from them, including how to approach problems effectively and consider edge cases during development in these three months.
+
+Based on my contributions and active involvement, the Kmesh community recognized my efforts and promoted me to a member of the organization. This acknowledgment was truly encouraging and motivated me to continue contributing to Kmesh and help the project grow.

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   title: Kmesh Maintainer
   url: https://github.com/LiZhenCheng9527
   image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/140870529?v=4
+
+yp969803:
+  name: Yash Patel
+  title: Kmesh Member
+  url: https://github.com/yp969803
+  image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/121890726?v=4