operations Articles

  • Metal as a Service (MaaS): DIY server-management at scale

    May 11, 2023

    Guaranteeing that our servers are continually upgraded to secure and vetted operating systems is one major step that we take to ensure our members and customers can access LinkedIn to look for new roles, access new learning programs, or exchange knowledge with other professionals. LinkedIn has quite a large fleet of servers on-premise that depend on internal...

  • Improving the customer’s experience via ML-driven payment routing

    January 25, 2023

    Co-Authors: Xianyun Mao, Stan Xu, Rachit Kumar, Vikas R, Xia Hong, and Divyakumar Menghani As a LinkedIn member, you can subscribe to LinkedIn Premium on a monthly or annual basis. For our customers, we offer the same option for our Talent Solutions and/or Sales Navigator products. For each, LinkedIn offers subscription renewal payments. These subscription...

  • Operating System Snapshot Automation

    December 6, 2022

    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...

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    Failure is Not an Option

    January 16, 2017

    This is the final post of the series “Every Day Is Monday in Operations.” Throughout this series we’ve discussed our challenges,...

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    MTTD and MTTR Are Key

    December 12, 2016

    This post is part of the series “Every Day Is Monday in Operations.” Throughout this series we discuss our challenges, share our war...

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    What Gets Measured Gets Fixed

    December 5, 2016

    This post is part of the series “Every Day Is Monday in Operations.” Throughout this series we discuss our challenges, share our war...