Yahoo Traffic Server: 700k lines of code, 9 months (developer.yahoo.net)

44 points by leej 16y ago ↗ HN

Does anybody other than Yahoo use Traffic Server?

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So is this in the same category as Squid/Varnish/etc? What makes it stand out from the rest? I'd love to see/hear more about it, but the video, article and README aren't very verbose. I'm just too lazy to start reading the source for this, and would love a high level overview ;)

fizx 16y ago ↗

I've done some limited evaluation of TS. Basically it's easy to configure like Squid/Varnish/etc, but what makes it stand out is that it has a really extensive and flexible plugin api. You can dig into the docs on it here:

http://incubator.apache.org/trafficserver/docs/sdk/

siculars 16y ago ↗

Kind of hard to find information out there... The OP link and links off that page don't lead anywhere useful. Googled around and came up with this:

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Traffic+Server

Which also yields:

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TrafficServerProposal

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/trafficserver.html

The Apache "champion" is Doug Cutting, of Hadoop fame, so it seems to have street cred.

pquerna 16y ago ↗

duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136465

mrduncan 16y ago ↗

This blog post has some higher-level information about TS - http://ostatic.com/blog/guest-post-yahoos-cloud-team-open-so...

ghotli 16y ago ↗

Instructions for grabbing the source with git: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Git

sriram_sun 16y ago ↗

Misleading title. They didn't write 700k lines of code in 9 months. It took them 9 months to opensource it.

sh1mmer 16y ago ↗

The original post title is "Open-Sourcing Traffic Server: 700k lines of code, 9 months".

The editorializing here is misleading, rather than Yahoo.

MaysonL 16y ago ↗

And to reduce the 700Kloc to 300K.