Architecture

Introduction

The original architectural documents for Traffic Server were lost in the transation to an open source project. The documents in this section are provisional and were written based on the existing code. The purpose is to have a high level description of aspects of Traffic Server to better inform ongoing work.

Contents:

• Apache Traffic Server Cache
  • Cache Architecture
  • Cache Data Structures
  • Cache Related API functions
  • Cache Internals
  • Cache Tools
  • Topics to be done
  • Cache Consistency
  • Volume Tagging
  • Tiered Storage Design