Raj Shekhar and James Fotherby, Quantcast
We encountered a significant challenge: the proliferation of numerous Linux distributions in our production environment following our cloud migration, which complicated management. In this session, we will reveal how we identified the right distributions, persuaded our team to embrace them, and navigated the crucial trade-offs that facilitated this important transition. This talk is specifically designed for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) who are striving for system standardization
Raj Shekhar, Quantcast
Raj Shekhar is a Staff System Engineer at Quantcast, working in the Cloud Infrastructure team at Quantcast. He enjoys poking sleeping dragons in large scale distributed systems. When not working, you can find him planning his next getaway, usually to a place accessible by motorcycle.
James Fotherby, Quantcast
James Fotherby is a Systems Engineer at Quantcast, adept in Kubernetes Infrastructure and Core Platform Tools, maintaining smooth infrastructure operations. He possesses a passion for reliability, monitoring, and developing self-healing systems with vendor agnostic components. His dedication to innovation and excellence plays a pivotal role in enhancing system efficiency and resilience.
author = {Raj Shekhar and James Fotherby},
title = {Taming the Linux Distribution Sprawl: A Journey to Standardization and Efficiency},
year = {2024},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}