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I remember the Yahoo guys saying they would open source PNUTS/sherpa at the very first NoSQL meetup. It's a shame that it's been so long and they have not foll
by moonpolysoft 16y ago
I remember the Yahoo guys saying they would open source PNUTS/sherpa at the very first NoSQL meetup. It's a shame that it's been so long and they have not followed through on that.
- strlen 16y agoThey open sourced the traffic server which is responsible for request routing. However the traffic server came from an acquisition (Inktomi) and was always intended as a commercial project that could run on other people's systems. I'd wager that the real issue is dependency on some of the core Yahoo libraries: there is a whole number of them and they're often so widely used that lot of ex-Yahoo engineers are surprised to discover they're not open-source. The reason they're not open source is that some of these would not be useful outside of Yahoo and create maintenance problems e.g., features that were once missing in FreeBSD, are available in recent versions of FreeBSD as well as Linux but had to be ported forward to preserve API compatibility.