image thumb7 Yahoo Traffic Server goes Open Source

When you have more than 600 million visitors a month, maintaining a traffic server becomes quote hectic, which is exactly the same issue with Yahoo. Tomorrow Yahoo will be taking a step ahead of its initial server to adopt an open source version and the code is available via Apache Software Foundation. The purpose of a traffic server is to ensure efficient working, management and routing of the information across the cloud and ensures a much faster response to all requests made. The Traffic Server is pretty efficient itself handling more than 30,000 requests and at present caters to more than 400 TB of data each day. Along with that yahoo will also be updating its Distribution Hadoop, which is at work across its data centers and will numerous new features and fixes for bugs. The same Hadoop provides framework for Yahoo’s services like Yahoo Mail, Search, etc.