Product Sherpa:
Sherpa is Yahoo's next-generation cloud storage platform. It is a hosted, distributed and geographically replicated key-value data store. It is a NoSQL solution that has been developed by Yahoo, to address scalability, availability, and latency needs of Yahoo websites. Sherpa has capabilities such as elastic growth, multi-tenancy, global footprint for local low-latency access, asynchronous replication, REST-based web service APIs, novel per-record consistency knobs, high availability, compression, secondary indexes, and record-level replication.
Sherpa is implementation of highly acclaimed paper called PNUTS.
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/1/1454167.pdf
Shmproxy: This is Yahoo's out of the box solution for TCP transport with connection multiplexing. Almost entire yahoo internal communication flows through shmproxy.