Systems-and-Infrastructure

Co-authors: Rohit Jamuar, Tianxin Zhou Introduction LinkedIn has a large set of physical servers geographically spread across several locations. Every application is hosted on a physical server and is distributed and managed across one of these hosts. With a reasonably sizable footprint of servers in data centers, LinkedIn is responsible for ensuring that these hosts are always on an operating system (OS) version deemed the “latest and greatest” for all intents and purposes. The Production Systems Software Engineering (PSSE) organization within LinkedIn has taken the responsibility […]