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25-442: The company developed Traffic Server , a proxy server web cache for World Wide Web traffic and on-demand streaming media which transcoded images down to a smaller size for users of dial-up Internet access . Traffic Server was deployed by several large ISPs including AOL . In 2003, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble , the company was acquired by Yahoo! for $ 241 million. The company's name, pronounced "INK-tuh-me",

50-506: A "Project Management Committee" in the bylaws ), some of which have a number of sub-projects. Unlike some other organizations that host FOSS projects, before a project is hosted at Apache it has to be licensed to the ASF with a grant or contributor agreement. In this way, the ASF gains the necessary intellectual property rights for the development and distribution of all its projects. The Board of Directors of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

75-707: A cultural appropriator or anything like that, I had just seen a documentary about Geronimo and the last days of a Native American tribe called the Apaches right, who succumbed to the invasion from the West, from the United States, and they were the last tribe to give up their territory and for me that almost romantically represented what I felt we were doing with this web-server project..." Apache divides its software development activities into separate semi-autonomous areas called "top-level projects" (formally known as

100-478: A server framework, with which you can build very fast servers for other protocols" . Traffic Server has been benchmarked to handle 200,000 requests per second or more (small objects out of cache). At a talk at the 2009 Cloud Computing Expo, members of the Yahoo! TS team stated that TS is used in production at Yahoo! to handle 400TB of traffic per day using only 150 commodity machines. The OStatic post describes TS as

125-659: A web server such as Apache HTTP Server . Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation ( / ə ˈ p æ tʃ i / ə- PATCH -ee ; ASF ) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the Apache HTTP Server , and incorporated on March 25, 1999. As of 2021, it includes approximately 1000 members. The Apache Software Foundation

150-457: Is a long-term support version of ATS while version 9 is the latest stable release, with quarterly minor versions scheduled. Beginning with version 4.0, all releases are considered stable for production, and follow regular semantic versioning . No more developer preview releases will be made, instead, the Git master branch is considered preview quality at all times. Long-term support is provided for

175-472: Is a decentralized open source community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License , a permissive open-source license for free and open-source software (FOSS). The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus-based development process and an open and pragmatic software license, which is to say that it allows developers, who receive

200-747: Is linked to the Apache HTTP Server, development beginning in February 1993. A group of eight developers started working on enhancing the NCSA HTTPd daemon . They came to be known as the Apache Group. On March 25, 1999, the Apache Software Foundation was formed. The first official meeting of the Apache Software Foundation was held on April 13, 1999. The initial members of the Apache Software Foundation consisted of

225-420: Is provided without the risk of platform lock-in . Among the ASF's objectives are: to provide legal protection to volunteers working on Apache projects, and to prevent the "Apache" brand name from being used by other organizations without permission. The ASF also holds several ApacheCon conferences each year, highlighting Apache projects and related technology. The history of the Apache Software Foundation

250-516: Is responsible for management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Bylaws. This includes management of the corporate assets (funds, intellectual property, trademarks, and support equipment), appointment of a President and corporate officers managing the core operations of the ASF, and allocation of corporate resources for the benefit of Apache projects. Technical decision-making authority for every Apache project

275-579: The "product of literally hundreds of developer-years" . In the context of cloud computing, TS would sit conceptually at the edge of the cloud, routing requests as they come in. In Yahoo!, it is used for the edge services as shown in a graphic distributed at the 2009 Cloud Computing Expo depicting Yahoo!'s private cloud architecture. In practical terms, a typical server configuration might use TS to serve static content, such as images, JavaScript , Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HyperText Markup Language ( HTML ) files, and route requests for dynamic content to

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300-503: The web search engine that was developed at the university. HotBot was the first search engine that made use of Inktomi's search technology. In June 1998, the company raised $ 36 million in an initial public offering . Its success in making HotBot the top rated search engine led to Microsoft, Yahoo! and Disney all partnering with Inktomi. In September 1998, the company acquired C2B Technologies for $ 95 million in stock, adding shopping engine technology to its portfolio. In November 1998,

325-639: The Apache Group: Brian Behlendorf , Ken Coar , Miguel Gonzales, Mark Cox, Lars Eilebrecht , Ralf S. Engelschall, Roy T. Fielding , Dean Gaudet, Ben Hyde, Jim Jagielski , Alexei Kosut, Martin Kraemer, Ben Laurie , Doug MacEachern, Aram Mirzadeh, Sameer Parekh , Cliff Skolnick, Marc Slemko, William (Bill) Stoddard, Paul Sutton, Randy Terbush and Dirk-Willem van Gulik . After a series of additional meetings to elect board members and resolve other legal matters regarding incorporation,

350-458: The Yahoo! homepage, and Yahoo! Sports, Mail and Finance. On April 21, 2010, the Apache board accepted Traffic Server as a TLP, graduating the project out of incubation. The latest stable version is 9.2.2 and was released on August 3, 2023. The latest long-term support version is 8.1.8 and was released on August 3, 2023. As of June 2021 , ATS is released in two stable versions, Version 8

375-515: The burst of the dot-com bubble , the company was restructured by Keyur Patel who joined Inktomi as investor, and senior vice president, strategy, marketing and technology. His restructuring led to the sale of the Ultraseek Server product (renamed Inktomi Enterprise Search) to Verity in late 2002 and the sale of the rest of the company to Yahoo! 's Yahoo! Search for $ 1.63 per share, or $ 241 million, completed on March 19, 2003. In 2006,

400-447: The company acquired Webspective, which developed technology for content management across a host of distributed servers to be used in load balancing , for $ 106 million in stock. In March 2000, the company's stock peaked at a price of $ 241 per share. In August 2000, the company acquired Ultraseek Server from The Walt Disney Company 's Go.com . In September 2000, the company acquired FastForward Networks, which developed software for

425-465: The company raised additional capital at a 688% premium to its IPO price five months earlier. In March 1999, CEO David Peterschmidt said that Inktomi would become an "arms merchant" to a growing number of content delivery network service providers. Inktomi received revenue based on a percentage of sales and/or a pay per click model. In April 1999, the company acquired Impulse Buy Network, adding 400 merchants to its shopping engine. In November 1999,

450-772: The distribution of live streaming media over the Internet using "app-level" multicast technology, for $ 1.3 billion in stock. In December 2000, the company acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi and other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers in August 2000. An article written by Danny Sullivan for Search Engine Watch on October 1, 2001, revealed that Inktomi accidentally allowed

475-431: The effective incorporation date of the Apache Software Foundation was set to June 1, 1999. Co-founder Brian Behlendorf states how the name 'Apache' was chosen: "I suggested the name Apache partly because the web technologies at the time that were launching were being called cyber this or spider that or something on those themes and I was like we need something a little more interesting, a little more romantic, not to be

500-503: The last minor version within a major release, for one added year. ATS has good support for the next generation HTTP protocol as of v6.0.0, HTTP/2 (a.k.a. H2). On the Is TLS Fast Yet site, it scores 100%. ATS is actively developed and supported by several large companies , as well as many individual contributors. The OStatic post describes TS as shipping "... with not only an HTTP web proxy and caching solution, but also ...

525-499: The public to access its database of spam websites, which contained over one million of such sites, through a search result on competing search engine AllTheWeb . The database was found by Brett Tabke, who ran the Search Engine World website. In July 2001, the company acquired eScene Networks, which developed software that provided an integrated workflow for the management and publishing of video content. In 2002, after

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550-423: The software freely, to redistribute it under non-free terms. Each project is managed by a self-selected team of technical experts who are active contributors to the project. The ASF is a meritocracy , implying that membership of the foundation is granted only to volunteers who have actively contributed to Apache projects. The ASF is considered a second-generation open-source organization, in that commercial support

575-716: The technology behind the Inktomi Proxy Server was acquired by Websense , which was modified and included in the Websense Security Gateway. In 2009, Yahoo! donated the Traffic Server technology to the Apache Software Foundation . Traffic Server The Apache Traffic Server ( ATS ) is a modular, high-performance reverse proxy and forward proxy server, generally comparable to Nginx and Squid . It

600-575: Was created by Inktomi , and distributed as a commercial product called the Inktomi Traffic Server, before Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo! . Shortly after Yahoo! released the TS source to Apache as an Apache Incubator project in July 2009, a guest editor on Yahoo!'s online publication OStatic stated that Yahoo! uses TS in production to serve more than 30 billion objects per day on sites like

625-527: Was derived from a Lakota legend about the trickster spider Iktomi , known for his ability to outsmart larger adversaries. The tri-color nested cube logo was created by Tom Lamar in 1996. Inktomi was founded in January 1996 by University of California, Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier at the University of California, Berkeley. The company was initially founded based on

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