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 to use 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, plans to announce the move at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday in a keynote speech, but the software actually arrived at Apache last week.
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