Yahoo open-sources app for speeding up websites
Published: 03 Nov 2009 18:03 GMT
Betting that the benefits of the move will outweigh the risks, Yahoo has released the source code underlying in-house software called Traffic Server that can speed up website operations.
The software works by moving some data and operations closer on the internet to the people trying using those services. Yahoo released it as an 'incubator' project under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation, a seasoned organisation for managing open-source projects and also the site that houses the Hadoop open-source project Yahoo favours for large-scale data-processing challenges.
Shelton Shugar, Yahoo's senior vice president of cloud computing, said in an interview: "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."
For the full story, see Slow Web site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that on CNET News.
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