With 600 million unique visits per month, Yahoo sees a large amount of traffic to its sites. In order to maintain sites in the cloud, Yahoo uses Traffic Server, a piece of software initially acquired via Inktomi, to support this massive amount of traffic.
Tomorrow, Yahoo will be debuting an open source version of Traffic Server. The code is available through the Incubator project at the Apache Software Foundation.
Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and routing for an entire cloud computing stack. Yahoo says that with the open source version of Traffic Server, organizations can benefit from access to cached online content. In addition, Traffic Server enables faster responses to requests for stored Web objects, such as files, news articles or images.
The company’s global network of data centers allows Traffic Server to choose the closest servers to store and access cached content for increased speed. Traffic Server is capable of handling more than 30,000 requests per second per server and it currently serves more than 400 terabytes of data per day.
Yahoo is also announcing an update to the Yahoo Distribution of Hadoop which is now deployed extensively in Yahoo data centers worldwide. These include new features and bug fixes that continue to improve robustness, security, performance, and operability of Hadoop for ongoing large scale deployments.
Yahoo says that opening of code for Traffic Server and the distribution of Hadoop reinforces the technology company’s commitment to open source technologies. Yahoo has been the primary developer and investor to Apache’s Hadoop. In 2006, Hadoop founder Doug Cutting joined Yahoo to lead the project of developing the open-source software. Hadoop now provides the framework for many Yahoo properties including Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, and several content and ad services.
600 Unique visitors a month? Wow, I didn’t know Yahoo was beaten so badly by Google.
I really hope thats 600 million uniques.
Yeah… my midget porn site gets almost double that.
600 that is.
Beat me to it.
There are websites dedicated to Atlas Shrugged-themed porno that get more than 600 uniqes/month.
600 unique visits per month i hope thats a typo
Probably a bit more than 600 visits/month
A little jab in the side of Yahoo?
As far as i know, yahoo engg have always been an active contributor to the hadoop project. This is just another step forward.
Nope, I confirmed with Yahoo. It’s 600 unique visits a month. But boy do those 600 people view a lot of pages!
Replace all instances of “cloud” with “internet” and it this entry reads much better: clearer, more exact, less faddish.
exciting! cant wait to play with it tomorrow
No need to wait. The code and documentation are available now
http://cwiki.ap.../Traffic+Server
yeah…me too!
“Yahoo says that opening of code for Traffic Server and the distribution of Hadoop reinforces the technology company’s commitment to open source technologies.”
That sentence really doesn’t say anything at all. WHY is Yahoo committed to open source technologies? HOW Yahoo benefits from this?
But anyway I think it’s a nice thing that they are open sourcing something.
Yahoo is doing really good since a couple of years. Lots of cool apps and stuff for developer. I can imagine that they will win lots of respect from the community and get back to their old path.
Yeah because respect from the open source community = $$$$
AOL uses Traffic Server too. AOL was one of the largest traffic server customers back in the Inktomi days and licensed the source code when Inktomi got out of the business.
I think they are on the right track. They are a very smart company.
I guess “cloud” has meant something, one day.
just 600 unique visits .. are you sure .. I mean just 600 ….
Daina
cloud computer = vps
those numbers are insane; that is about 10% of the world’s population.