LinkedIn : adopting Azure Linux as LinkedIn’s operating system

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https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/architecture/navigating-the-transition-adopting-azure-linux-as-linkedins-operatingsystem

As of April 2024, Azure Linux is the operating system running nearly all of LinkedIn’s servers, virtual machines, and containers today. We migrated most of our fleet to Azure Linux as a key part of LinkedIn’s evolution in building a modern compute stack, workload orchestration, and ML workload platforms.

The move to Azure Linux supported two critical goals: providing a modern, secure operating system to reliably serve over 1 billion LinkedIn members worldwide; and delivering innovative new AI-powered features to members faster. Beyond these goals, other critical factors in our decision were cost-effectiveness, customization, scalability, community support, and compliance. ..

* So, Microsoft admits that none of bolded features can be found with Windows servers..and that Linux is more modern and secure.

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Linux definitely doesn’t feel “more modern”, it’s based off concepts from the 1970s!

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And modern Windows was based on the concepts of VMS, also from the 1970s.

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With all due respect Alex, Linkedin may be owned by Microsoft but “Microsoft” did not state that Windows servers weren’t secure.
If you are already on a Linux web hoster, you are NOT going to migrate to Windows. It would be too disruptive. Trust me on that one.
I think you are stretching the comment a bit much.

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Alex5723 wrote:

* So, Microsoft admits that none of bolded features can be found with Windows servers..and that Linux is more modern and secure.

For avoidance of doubt, the migration was from Linux to a distribution developed by Microsoft:

The end of life for our CentOS 7 operating system (OS) was a primary driving force for our move to the more modern Azure Linux distribution.
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Legacy distributions of CentOS 7 suffered from outdated user-space.

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