71176 9 2 html <p>Traffic Server, which will be an Incubator Project of the Apache Software foundation and which is <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/projects/trafficserver.html">already available</a> for download, was originally acquired by Yahoo when it purchased Inktomi. It works by "<em>caching frequently-accessed information at the edge of the network</em>", in turn bringing content "<em>physically closer to end users, while enabling faster delivery and reduced bandwidth use</em>". In one Yahoo test, a single server handled up to 35,000 requests per second.</p> <p>In an <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10388600-264.html">interview</a> with News.com, Shelton Shugar, Yahoo's SVP of Clouding Computing, stated that Yahoo is open sourcing Traffic Server because it thinks it can build a community around it:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>We've donated Traffic Server to Apache because we think it's a great piece of code, and we want to build a community around that in the same manner we built a community out of Hadoop.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Hadoop is an open source Java software framework that Yahoo has contributed significantly to.</p> <p>What about competitors? "<em>We suspect our larger competitors already have some solution they're happy with</em>," Shugar says.</p> <p>It's an interesting move. When it comes to Yahoo's consumer facing products, not much appears to be changing. But behind the scenes, Yahoo has made significant investments in reaching out <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/3287-yahoo-makes-developers-the-boss">to developers</a>. This is just the latest example. The question is whether a good rapport with the developer community is really what Yahoo needs right now.</p> <p>Time will tell. In the meantime, if you have a significant amount of traffic and a web proxy cache fits into your plans, Yahoo hopes you'll take a look at Traffic Server. After all, it's all about '<em><a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/4663-yahoo-releases-new-ad-campaign-about-y-ou">Y!ou</a></em>'.</p> <p><em>Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yodelanecdotal/">Yodel Anecdotal</a> via Flickr.</em></p> <p>Traffic Server, which will be an Incubator Project of the Apache Software foundation and which is <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/projects/trafficserver.html">already available</a> for download, was originally acquired by Yahoo when it purchased Inktomi. It works by "<em>caching frequently-accessed information at the edge of the network</em>", in turn bringing content "<em>physically closer to end users, while enabling faster delivery and reduced bandwidth use</em>". In one Yahoo test, a single server handled up to 35,000 requests per second.</p> <p>In an <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10388600-264.html">interview</a> with News.com, Shelton Shugar, Yahoo's SVP of Clouding Computing, stated that Yahoo is open sourcing Traffic Server because it thinks it can build a community around it:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>We've donated Traffic Server to Apache because we think it's a great piece of code, and we want to build a community around that in the same manner we built a community out of Hadoop.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Hadoop is an open source Java software framework that Yahoo has contributed significantly to.</p> <p>What about competitors? "<em>We suspect our larger competitors already have some solution they're happy with</em>," Shugar says.</p> <p>It's an interesting move. When it comes to Yahoo's consumer facing products, not much appears to be changing. But behind the scenes, Yahoo has made significant investments in reaching out <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/3287-yahoo-makes-developers-the-boss">to developers</a>. This is just the latest example. The question is whether a good rapport with the developer community is really what Yahoo needs right now.</p> <p>Time will tell. In the meantime, if you have a significant amount of traffic and a web proxy cache fits into your plans, Yahoo hopes you'll take a look at Traffic Server. After all, it's all about '<em><a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/4663-yahoo-releases-new-ad-campaign-about-y-ou">Y!ou</a></em>'.</p> <p><em>Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yodelanecdotal/">Yodel Anecdotal</a> via Flickr.</em></p> 2009-11-03T03:09:29+00:00 1 1 html <p><strong><img alt="" height="103" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2426/3620023763_4f1503359f_m.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" width="138" />If your website gets massive traffic, or you are building a new website and can't sleep at night because you're worried that you will, Yahoo wants to help. And it doesn't want anything in return, except maybe your love.</strong></p> <p>On Tuesday, Yahoo will announce that it has open sourced Traffic Server, the HTTP web proxy cache it uses internally to serve up millions upon millions of requests to its users on a daily basis in an efficient manner.</p> <p><strong><img style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2426/3620023763_4f1503359f_m.jpg" alt="" width="138" height="103" />If your website gets massive traffic, or you are building a new website and can't sleep at night because you're worried that you will, Yahoo wants to help. And it doesn't want anything in return, except maybe your love.</strong></p> <p>On Tuesday, Yahoo will announce that it has open sourced Traffic Server, the HTTP web proxy cache it uses internally to serve up millions upon millions of requests to its users on a daily basis in an efficient manner.</p> false 4901 Got traffic? 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