Case Study: Penn State secures and troubleshoots COVID test scheduling with Linkerd from Buoyant

Penn State secures and troubleshoots 68,000 COVID test invites with Buoyant

Penn State's software engineering team faced the challenge of building a secure, HIPAA-compliant system to schedule COVID-19 testing for over 68,000 students, faculty, and staff returning to campus. To address this, they turned to vendor Buoyant and implemented its product, the Linkerd service mesh, for its capabilities in security and observability.

Buoyant's solution provided Penn State with critical observability to identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and bugs under the large load, which was the primary benefit they realized. The implementation of Buoyant's Linkerd successfully secured, monitored, and supported the microservice-based system that handled the scheduling of thousands of tests.

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