YTS (Yahoo! Traffic Server)

Good News, YTS (Yahoo! Traffic Server) is being released as open source project, here is a TechCrunch article:

“Yahoo uses Traffic Server, a piece of software initially acquired via Inktomi, to support this massive amount of traffic.”

Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server

and this is the YTS proposal in The Apache Software Foundation:

“Traffic Server is fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server.”

“Traffic Server is a piece of software initially acquired by Yahoo! from Inktomi. The software has been actively developed and used at Yahoo for the last three years, and we’re now getting ready to Open Source this project.”

Traffic Server Proposal

This is the press release from Yahoo!:

Yahoo! Announces Open Source Distribution of Traffic Server