Yahoo! proposal to open source "Traffic Server" via the ASF. Traffic Server is a “fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server” (presumably equivalent to things like Squid and Varnish) originally acquired from Inktomi and developed internally at Yahoo! for the past three years, which has been benchmarked handling 35,000 req/s on a single box. No source code yet but it looks like the release will arrive pretty soon.
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Squid is much faster. Flickr from what I hear has turned down using Traffic server since it was to slow for them. In theory, it should be as fast or faster because a lot of code that's in squid is in Traffic server - yet from testing and tuning it could not keep up with the requests.
Old Flickr User - 7th July 2009 18:21 - #
Not 100% true about squid being faster than TS. There are some things about Flickr's workload that has made squid a better solution at the moment, but I suspect that any shortcomings will be solved with TS soon.
John Allspaw - 7th July 2009 18:38 - #