1. Strategic
Open Source
at Yahoo!
Gil Yehuda
Director of Open Source
22 November 2011

3. Yahoo! is
the premier digital
media company.

4. Yahoo! issites are #1 inmost
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sites of ranked #2 in
category technology companies in
trusted (e.g. News, Finance, Sports,
influential per Estate,
their category. month. Autos,
12B visits brands in APAC. Local)
of global internet users.
Flickr, omg!, Real
the world.

5. In India: Yahoo! reaches 81% of the internet users
More people read Yahoo!News than read the leading
English papers: Times of India and Hindustan Times.
Yahoo! Sports is #1 here. Yahoo! Cricket had 310M
page views during the ICC Cricket World Cup.
Yahoo! Movies, omg! and Y!Messenger are also #1
sites in India.

6. Y! Private Cloud processes 100 billion events/day.
We manage 200 petabytes of content:
This grows by 50 terabytes/day.
Y! runs a 16 terabyte MOLAP Cube:
It processes 50 gigabytes/hour.
We process 3.7 billion display ad impressions/day.
We generate 13M versions of the homepage/day.

7. Standards

8. Standards
Code

9. Standards
Code
Deals

10. Standards
Code
Deals
Pride

11. Standards
Code
Deals
Pride
Protect

12. Standards
Code
Deals
Pride
Protect
Manage

13. Standards
Code
Deals
Pride
Protect
Manage
Talent

14. “I work for an Open Source company.”
Using Giving
Selling

15. Apache Hadoop, Pig, Zookeeper, Oozie, Hive, etc.
Apache Traffic Server, User Fiber Framework
YUI library
L3dsr
Pluton
Mojito
Plus many Open APIs and SDKs
Plus support of many Open Standards activities
Plus support for Random Hacks of Kindness
Plus code from Hack Days
And much more

16. FOSS Proprietary
Products
code code
Plumbing
Commodity platforms

17. Yahoo Digital Media Experiences
Ads User Content
Ingestion, Scoring, Optimization and Ranking
Serving & Storage
(Serving Environment)
Hadoop
(Async Platform)
Cloud Services
Cloud Fabric

22. Why Open Source Hadoop?
Developer Tech debt
discipline
Talent
Code quality seeding and
sourcing
Business
Competitors
deals

24. Livestand and Mojito
3rd Party
Livestand
apps
Mojito Manhattan Ychrome Phonegap Sidewinder
Yahoo!
Node.js Runtime Deployment
Content

25. Yahoo! Inc.
Government Marketplace
Community
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26. Yahoo! loves Open Source
 We use Open Source tools,
products, and code.
 We give back to projects by way
of big fixes and extensions.
 We sponsor Open Source
projects, large and small.