Yahoo! launched today an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services. Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing for an entire cloud computing stack.
The new open source version of Traffic Server allows organizations to benefit from access to cached online content. In addition, it produces faster responses to requests for stored Web objects such as files, news articles or images, while reducing bandwidth usage and costs.
According to the announcement, "The low-latency, extensible framework of Traffic Server makes it ideal for delivering Web traffic at high rates, and its 'plug-in' architecture makes it customizable to fit different system needs."
Yahoo! donated the Traffic Server code to the Apache Software Foundation through the Apache Incubator, and plans to create a community of developers around the open source Traffic Server.
-Melanie Saxe
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