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- Guillaume Quintard
- October 9, 2024
When you send an HTTP request to a server, it’s unlikely that you are talking to it directly. Rather, you are sending...
- Guillaume Quintard
- September 24, 2024
Hello there! This article is the third part of a series, you may want to start at the beginning (The Basics), or at...
- Guillaume Quintard
- September 11, 2024
In our previous post, Varnish and Observability (Part 1: The Basics), we explored the Varnish ecosystem of core tools...
- Brian Stewart
- August 20, 2024
Speed is one of the most crucial aspects of any online experience. And today, speed isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s a...
- Guillaume Quintard
- August 13, 2024
Do you wish you knew what device or browser your clients are using? Do you need to take on-the-fly decisions based on...
- Guillaume Quintard
- July 23, 2024
Life as a reverse-proxy can be tough, you know? On one side, you have users in a hurry coming to you to get their...
- Guillaume Quintard
- July 18, 2024
Microservices are great: they isolate concerns, provide modular and reusable components and forces us, developers, to...
- Guillaume Quintard
- July 9, 2024
Amazon S3 was one of the original web services. Launched in 2006, the service delivered on its promise of being a...
- Guillaume Quintard
- June 25, 2024
Is Varnish fast? Of course it is! I know that, you know that, but I want my friends, and my friends’ friends to also...
- Guillaume Quintard
- June 20, 2024
Let’s open with an extremely controversial statement: you should run up-to-date software*. I think everybody here...
- Ian Vaughan
- June 18, 2024
Varnish Cache is deployed behind millions of websites worldwide. It’s a useful, powerful tool for site reliability...
- Guillaume Quintard
- June 6, 2024
This week, I must say, I’m a bit grumpy. I’ve once again run into a bad architecture pattern that has bitten our users...
- Guillaume Quintard
- May 29, 2024
Have a seat, we need to have a serious discussion. Don’t worry, you’re not in trouble, but we’ve got to talk. Well,...
- Ian Vaughan
- May 7, 2024
In this blog, we delve into how a leading online bank significantly enhanced its web performance and security using...
- Guillaume Quintard
- April 30, 2024
Today, I want to celebrate the new Ubuntu release: Noble Numbat. It came out a few days ago and as usual it comes with...
- Guillaume Quintard
- April 25, 2024
I usually have a way with long-winded introductions, but not today. Today, I’m just too excited to share the news to...
- Guillaume Quintard
- April 15, 2024
A few days ago we looked at how Varnish is great at video streaming, and we touched on the high-level concepts that...
- Guillaume Quintard
- April 3, 2024
Over the last decade, video streaming has been firmly migrating to an Over-The-Top (OTT) model, using video streaming...
- Erika Wolfe
- March 27, 2024
TL;DR: By redesigning aging infrastructure with Varnish Enterprise for better traffic management and speed, a global...
- Guillaume Quintard
- March 22, 2024
A new Docker image was expected since Varnish Cache 7.5 just got released a few days ago. But this time, the new image...
- Thijs Feryn
- March 22, 2024
March 15th just passed, which means we can expect a new release of Varnish Cache. As a quick reminder: every year on...
- Ian Vaughan
- March 7, 2024
Intuition tells us that it is impossible to lower costs without decreasing web performance, or increase web performance...
- Ian Vaughan
- February 28, 2024
In this blog post, we’ll explore the evolving landscape of content delivery. We'll delve into the shift to edge...
- Ian Vaughan
- February 20, 2024
Digital agility defines success. The Hindu, a highly popular English-language daily newspaper in India, provides a...
- Adrian Herrera
- February 7, 2024
Varnish is designed to optimize performance by enabling opportunities for efficiency improvements. In previous...
- Jess Bretin
- February 1, 2024
Varnish Controller 6.0 is here! This represents a milestone for Varnish Software and the evolution of Controller, our...
- Ian Vaughan
- January 16, 2024
APA-IT, Austria's premier media and broadcasting service provider, excels in offering IT services to the Austrian news...
- Thijs Feryn
- January 9, 2024
We’re happy to announce the availability of the official Varnish Enterprise Helm Chart. Helm is a package manager and...
- Ian Vaughan
- December 13, 2023
Welcome to Varnish Software's roundup of this year’s most popular blog posts! Whether you're new to Varnish or a...
- Ian Vaughan
- December 12, 2023
In the dynamic world of fast fashion, delivering the latest trends to customers worldwide requires a seamless online...
- Thijs Feryn
- December 6, 2023
WordPressis one of the most popular content management systems in the world. It originally started as blogging...
- Ian Vaughan
- November 30, 2023
The Varnish Developer Portal is a treasure trove of resources designed to empower developers with the knowledge needed...
- Marco Plätzer
- November 14, 2023
Mauve Mailorder Software(Mauve) stands out as a trailblazer in digitizing pharmacies and advancing the online pharmacy...
- Ian Vaughan
- November 6, 2023
Many of us interact with web portals on a near-daily basis. These platforms serve as centralized hubs for accessing,...
- Adrian Herrera
- November 1, 2023
Almost all organizations rely on some form of content delivery. From websites to media to software. The transfer of...
- Ian Vaughan
- October 24, 2023
This article is intended as a reference guide for users looking for a side-by-side comparison of the features found in...
- Ian Vaughan
- October 17, 2023
Digital processes and data transfer are the backbone of day-to-day operations for enterprises everywhere. With digital...
- Ian Vaughan
- October 12, 2023
In the realm of content delivery, the need for speed and efficiency is undeniable. Users expect swift webpage loads,...
- Thijs Feryn
- September 8, 2023
In the dynamic world of technology, questions arise and solutions are sought. Stack Overflow stands as a beacon,...
- Thijs Feryn
- September 6, 2023
Varnish sits in front of the web or application server and caches its output. This means that the logs of the web...
- Adrian Herrera
- August 31, 2023
Is the era of "cheap, all-you-can-watch content” (for consumers) ending? This is the contention of a recent Guardian...
web performance
content delivery
reduce streaming costs
content delivery software
reduce egress fees
- Ian Vaughan
- August 22, 2023
The move from legacy distribution methods towards an all-IP streaming business model is top of mind for broadcasters,...
- Ian Vaughan
- August 17, 2023
“From an infrastructure provisioning point of view, if you can deliver the same or better demand with less...
- Thijs Feryn
- August 7, 2023
When talking about caching, nearly all the attention goes to ensuring that content is properly stored in the cache....
MSE
Varnish Massive Storage Engine
VoD
VoD streaming
edge computing
Varnish Controller
Traffic Router
- Ian Vaughan
- July 24, 2023
In our recent webinar with STL, From CDN to Edge Content Delivery: Quantifying the Big Opportunity, we received a lot...
- Ian Vaughan
- July 10, 2023
For e-commerce and online retail, revenue and web performance are inextricably linked. Delays, latency and downtime...
- Ian Vaughan
- June 13, 2023
A microservice is an autonomous subset of a software system, often responsible for managing some of the data within...
- Ian Vaughan
- June 7, 2023
Varnish Enterprise version 6.0.11r2 contains a new Varnish Module (VMOD). S3 VMOD provides functionality for using...
- Frank Garland
- May 24, 2023
In a collaboration with STL Partners, Varnish has released a webinar “From CDN to Edge Content Delivery: Quantifying...
- Frank Garland
- May 15, 2023
What is TLS? TLS, or Transport layer security, is a more modern version of the original SSL (Secure Socket Layer). It’s...
- Frank Miller
- March 21, 2023
With new breakthroughs, innovations and exciting digital experiences emerging, last year was pivotal for the content...
- Thijs Feryn
- March 15, 2023
Today is March 15th and that means it’s release day! Every year on March 15th and September 15th, a new version of...
- Frank Garland
- March 13, 2023
Recently, Varnish Technical Evangelist Thijs Feryn led a webinar covering Varnish Configuration Language (VCL), the...
- Frank Garland
- March 6, 2023
Varnish Controller is our orchestration tool, built to manage Varnish Enterprise architectures of any size. Packed with...
- Arianna Aondio
- February 27, 2023
Fastly VCL is a domain-specific programming language which has evolved from the Varnish proxy cache, which is part of...
- Adrian Herrera
- January 30, 2023
As a Solutions Architect, Web Developer or Performance Engineer, you have many ways to deliver web pages, applications...
Varnish Software
Varnish Software Partners
CDN
varnish enterprise
high performance
Varnish Features
Varnish Controller
Traffic Router
greening of streaming
- Ian Vaughan
- December 19, 2022
Calling 2022 a “big year” for Varnish Software would be an understatement. Over the last 12 months, we’ve experienced...
origin shield
Black Friday
retail web performance
web performance black friday
always on retail
ecommerce
- Frank Garland
- December 1, 2022
Another Black Friday has come and gone, along with its sister shop-holiday Cyber Monday. Although with the continued...
Varnish Software
website performance
caching for web performance
Varnish solutions
varnish enterprise
- Frank Garland
- November 10, 2022
Accelerate Your Internal IT Processes Your IT team is the lifeblood of your company, and their ability to efficiently...
- Ian Vaughan
- October 20, 2022
GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime for APIs, designed to give clients the specific data they need and...
- Fredrik Steen
- October 8, 2022
Have you been trying to figure out how you can easily use Varnish Controller with docker-compose? This article walks...
- Ian Vaughan
- June 28, 2022
Earlier this month, Varnish Software was delighted to attend the Greening of Streaming launch at the UK parliament. The...
- Adrian Herrera
- June 7, 2022
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are six months away. However distant this may seem, wheels across the entire e-commerce...
- Thijs Feryn
- May 31, 2022
This week's episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday is about ActiveDNS (vmod_activedns), a Varnish Enterprise VMOD that...
- Ian Vaughan
- May 26, 2022
Hot on the heels of a major Varnish Controller release, a series of updates to Varnish Enterprise are now available!...
- Thijs Feryn
- May 24, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about UDO which is short for "Unified Director Object"....
- Thijs Feryn
- May 10, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about varnishncsa, a tool that you can use to produce web...
- Adrian Herrera
- May 5, 2022
Quality content drives valuable action. Whether that action is a download, install, view, subscription or purchase,...
- Ian Vaughan
- April 28, 2022
The Varnish Controller is our administration solution for managing large Varnish Enterprise environments, offering...
- Thijs Feryn
- April 19, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about backend health. Specifically, backend logs, health...
- Thijs Feryn
- April 8, 2022
As the company behind the Varnish Cache open source project, we do our fair share of contributing to the open source...
- Ian Vaughan
- April 5, 2022
Varnish is a software-defined solution for all kinds of web performance challenges. As flexible caching software, it...
- Thijs Feryn
- March 22, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about getting stuck in an infinite redirect loop, an...
- Thijs Feryn
- March 15, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll continue the conversation about JSON Web Tokens. Last week, we...
- Jonatan Lindgren
- March 8, 2022
Data privacy has never been hotter as a topic, in part because the US CLOUD Act came into force, making organizations...
- Thijs Feryn
- March 8, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll introduce you to JSON Web Tokens and demonstrate how to...
- Ian Vaughan
- March 8, 2022
The “death of TV” has long been predicted, and peak multi-device/mobile OTT streaming may finally ring the death knell...
- Ian Vaughan
- March 4, 2022
In a previous blog post, we explained the difference between the loading speed of a page and the perceived loading...
- Ian Vaughan
- March 2, 2022
In this blog post we’re exploring some aspects of Varnish Enterprise that enable what it is best known for: excellent...
- Thijs Feryn
- March 1, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about basic authentication, and how to use Varnish as an...
- Thijs Feryn
- February 22, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about the Transit Buffer. The Transit Buffer is a Varnish...
- Ian Vaughan
- February 17, 2022
Today’s release of Varnish Controller 4.0 is a milestone for us at Varnish Software.
- Ian Vaughan
- February 16, 2022
Delivering Game-Changing Performance Improvements and Competitive Advantage for Online Retail As the penetration of...
- Ian Vaughan
- February 16, 2022
As a company, we operate in the web acceleration and content delivery space. Our mission is to speed up the delivery of...
- Thijs Feryn
- February 15, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about Memory Governor. The Memory Governor is a Varnish...
- Ian Vaughan
- February 10, 2022
When COVID-related lockdowns were introduced, and people started living their full lives at home, digitally connecting...
- Thijs Feryn
- February 8, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about prefetching, a concept of proactively fetching...
- Thijs Feryn
- February 1, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about Hitch. Hitch is an open-source TLS proxy that...
- Thijs Feryn
- January 27, 2022
The Time to First Byte (TTFB) is the amount of time between sending a request to a server and receiving the first byte...
- Thijs Feryn
- January 25, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about the PROXY protocol. The PROXY protocol transports...
- Thijs Feryn
- January 18, 2022
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about varnishstat, a tool that displays Varnish...
- Thijs Feryn
- January 11, 2022
Welcome back to Two-Minute Tech Tuesday! In this week’s episode, we'll take a closer look at Ykey. Ykey is a Varnish...
Varnish Software
Varnish Software Partners
CDN
news
webinar
high performance
Varnish Features
varnish controller 3.0
Traffic Router
- Ian Vaughan
- December 21, 2021
This blog post covers some of our most important news and most popular content from 2021. Read on to catch up the new...
- Thijs Feryn
- December 14, 2021
In this week’s Two Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about synthetic responses. These are responses that didn't originate...
- Fredrik Steen
- December 13, 2021
Many enterprises these days use what we call a multi-CDN strategy to ensure content reaches their audience reliably....
- Thijs Feryn
- December 7, 2021
In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we're explaining how the total lifetime of a cached object is...
- Jonatan Lindgren
- December 1, 2021
Is the traditional Black Friday holiday spending extravaganza dead? Is the decline in Cyber Five spending experienced...
- Thijs Feryn
- November 30, 2021
This week’s episode of Two Minute Tech Tuesday demonstrates how to run Varnish on the Digital Ocean cloud by using the...
- Ian Vaughan
- November 29, 2021
When you think of caching proxies and software for speeding up your website, you think about Varnish and Squid. But how...
- Ian Vaughan
- November 26, 2021
We’re happy to announce a new Varnish Enterprise release! Version 6.0.9r1 introduces the Slicer VMOD (which joins the...
- Thijs Feryn
- November 23, 2021
This week’s episode of Two Minute Tech Tuesday explains how the built-in Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) works....
- Thijs Feryn
- November 16, 2021
In this week’s Two Minute Tech Tuesday, we're talking about cache variations.
- Thijs Feryn
- November 9, 2021
In this week’s Two Minute Tech Tuesday, we're discussing the official Varnish Enterprise image on the Oracle Cloud...
- Ian Vaughan
- November 3, 2021
In this blog series, we’ve been looking inside Varnish to see what’s under the hood. There’s a lot more going on than...
- Ian Vaughan
- November 2, 2021
While predictions about edge computing and 5G changing the face of m-commerce are already coming true, the potential of...
- Thijs Feryn
- November 2, 2021
In this week’s Two Minute Tech Tuesday, we're talking about the Cache-Control header which is returned by the origin...
- Alexandra Lehner
- October 28, 2021
Online retail can be unpredictable, which is why strategizing and optimizing your setup to ensure uptime, and in the...
- Ian Vaughan
- October 26, 2021
While we have spent some time explaining all the surprising things that the Varnish private CDN solution contains under...
- Thijs Feryn
- October 26, 2021
In this week’s Two Minute Tech Tuesday, we're going to revisit the cloud. We've already done three episodes about...
- Ian Vaughan
- October 20, 2021
Content delivery networks (CDNs) can be much more than just the workhorse of content delivery. Sure, that’s what they...
- Thijs Feryn
- October 19, 2021
This week's 2-Minute Tech Tuesday features the official Docker image for Varnish. We'll explain what Docker is, how it...
- Alexandra Lehner
- October 14, 2021
Getting all the elements of a consumer-friendly, high-performance online retail experience right is a technical...
- Jonatan Lindgren
- October 13, 2021
Content can’t be king without the CDN In mid-2021 a handful of catastrophic commercial CDN outages made the world take...
- Thijs Feryn
- October 12, 2021
In this week's episode of 2-Minute Tech Tuesday, we're showing you how to run Varnish in the cloud on Microsoft Azure...
- Ian Vaughan
- October 6, 2021
Many Varnish users experience Varnish only as an HTTP reverse proxy. Widely adopted to be the middle man sitting...
- Ian Vaughan
- October 5, 2021
For online retail companies, downtime is the worst-case scenario. Downtime or traffic slowdowns lead to a number of...
- Thijs Feryn
- October 5, 2021
In this week's episode of 2-Minute Tech Tuesday, we're showing you how to run Varnish in the cloud on Amazon Web...
- Ian Vaughan
- September 28, 2021
We’re pleased to announce the latest release of Varnish Controller - our administration console for managing Varnish...
- Thijs Feryn
- September 27, 2021
In this week's 2-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll introduce "Varnish Cloud", a Varnish Software product that offers Varnish...
varnish installation
2MTT
installing varnish on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
installing varnish on centOS
- Thijs Feryn
- September 21, 2021
In this week's 2 Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll be talking about installing Varnish on CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Jonatan Lindgren
- September 15, 2021
One of the most important tools in securing high-performance web content delivery is caching. But when we talk about...
- Ian Vaughan
- September 14, 2021
Varnish Enterprise is now available via Oracle Cloud Marketplace on a pay-as-you-go basis, for accelerating content...
- Thijs Feryn
- September 14, 2021
In this week's 2 Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll be talking about installing Varnish on Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems.
Varnish Massive Storage Engine
video streaming
streaming video bandwidth
Top Ten Features of Varnish
- Ian Vaughan
- September 8, 2021
How do the biggest video-streaming platforms in the world manage to store so much video and serve it so fast to such...
- Thijs Feryn
- September 8, 2021
In this week's 2-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll be discussing banning, which is a mechanism in Varnish to remove outdated...
- Thijs Feryn
- September 7, 2021
Do you have a need to dive deeper into Varnish and what it can do, but you’re not sure where to find the right...
- Alexandra Lehner
- August 31, 2021
Downtime is always bad, and you want to avoid it. But sometimes you can get away with it. This is one of the magic...
- Thijs Feryn
- August 31, 2021
In this week's 2-Minute Tech Tuesday we'll be talking about "purging", which is Varnish's built-in mechanism to remove...
- Ian Vaughan
- August 27, 2021
Although it’s not a traditional cybersecurity method, origin shielding lets you protect your origin server(s) from...
- Alexandra Lehner
- August 25, 2021
How can you tell whether bots visiting your website actually are who they say they are? Are they bad bots with...
- Alexandra Lehner
- August 24, 2021
Transport layer security (TLS) is the de facto standard for sending and receiving secure HTTP traffic. With this in...
- Thijs Feryn
- August 24, 2021
This week's topic is about cookies, a surprisingly challenging topic when it comes to caching.
- Ian Vaughan
- August 19, 2021
It’s not unusual for companies to want to understand their web traffic in greater depth. Being able to collect...
- Alexandra Lehner
- August 17, 2021
Cybersecurity requires more than just a single action or approach because threats exist on many levels. Some of the...
- Thijs Feryn
- August 17, 2021
This week’s episode is about Grace mode, Varnish’s interpretation of stale-while-revalidate.
cache invalidation
caching for web performance
web security
high performance
Top Ten Features of Varnish
- Ian Vaughan
- August 11, 2021
Securing high performance and speed for web content delivery relies on smart caching strategies. Caching content is a...
cybersecurity
authentication
authorization
Varnish for authentication and authorization
Summer of Security
- Alexandra Lehner
- August 10, 2021
Authentication and authorization policies exist in companies of all types and sizes to govern access control and...
- Thijs Feryn
- August 10, 2021
This week’s episode is about VCL — the Varnish Configuration Language — which is used to define your own caching...
- Miles Weaver
- August 4, 2021
The market for cybersecurity solutions never declines; there are always new and more malicious threats around the next...
- Thijs Feryn
- August 3, 2021
This week's episode is about load balancing, which is a concept where traffic load gets distributed to a collection of...
- Alexandra Lehner
- July 28, 2021
The statistics around data breaches and personal information misuse are alarming. In the United States alone, there is...
- Thijs Feryn
- July 26, 2021
This week’s episode is about the Varnish Controller, an administration console that simplifies the process of managing...
- Lars Larsson
- July 21, 2021
Recently, Varnish Software and Intel announced a major step forward for streaming (and content) delivery, reaching...
- Ian Vaughan
- July 20, 2021
Today's episode is about Varnish Discovery, but before we can talk about Discovery, we need to look back at last week's...
- Alexandra Lehner
- July 19, 2021
While new cybersecurity threats emerge all the time, some long-standing basic threats have never gone away. The humble...
- Thijs Feryn
- July 12, 2021
This week's episode of 2 Minute Tech Tuesdays is about the Varnish Broadcaster, a Varnish Enterprise tool that...
- Ian Vaughan
- July 8, 2021
As the primary sponsors and developers behind the open-source Varnish Cache project, and providers of the commercial...
- Miles Weaver
- July 6, 2021
Until recently, most users of private CDN solutions have had unique use cases, requiring flexibility and...
- Thijs Feryn
- July 6, 2021
This episode of Two Minute Tech Tuesdays is about request coalescing, a core feature in Varnish that is used to reduce...
- Ian Vaughan
- June 28, 2021
As principal members of the Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), Varnish Software supports all standardization and...
- Ian Vaughan
- June 23, 2021
*Last Updated 21/06/2022* Origin shield technology isn’t new, and many companies already rely on origin shielding to...
- Thijs Feryn
- June 21, 2021
In this week's episode of Two Minute Tech Tuesdays, we're looking at parallel ESI (Edge Side Includes).
- Alexandra Barcelona
- June 16, 2021
Whether you have one CDN or many, an origin shield is a must-have as part of your resilience and risk mitigation...
- Thijs Feryn
- June 14, 2021
In this episode we'll be looking at dynamic backends. Dynamic backends in Varnish allow backends to be defined on the...
- Ian Vaughan
- June 14, 2021
The Fastly CDN outage on June 8th, which took down a major part of the internet, including popular websites and...
- Thijs Feryn
- June 7, 2021
In this episode we’ll be talking about Varnish High Availability.
- Guillaume Quintard
- June 3, 2021
VCL or "Varnish Configuration Language" is an absolutely brilliant idea, which I may have said once or twice already,...
- Ian Vaughan
- June 2, 2021
A new version of Varnish Enterprise, release 6.0.8r2, is available now! It adds new Varnish modules (VMODs), features,...
- Alexandra Barcelona
- June 1, 2021
Whether you deploy a single CDN or rely on a multi-CDN strategy, an origin shield is a must-have to reduce the load on...
- Alf-André Walla
- May 31, 2021
Transit Buffer is a feature available in Varnish Enterprise release 6.0.8r2. Read more here.
- Peter Löfling
- May 25, 2021
For network operators and ISPs, revenue margins are narrowing in hyper-competitive markets. At the same time, capital...
- Joakim Berg
- May 24, 2021
Video streaming has overtaken all other use cases in its digital dominance, accelerated by the challenges of...
- Miles Weaver
- May 19, 2021
In 2016, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the mobile industry as a whole committed to working...
- Alexandra Lehner
- May 17, 2021
While not classified as a traditional cybersecurity method, an origin shield can help mitigate the effects of both...
- Ian Vaughan
- May 12, 2021
As a society we’ve come to depend so much on cloud computing that we think of it as a “set and forget” resource (if we...
- Alexandra Lehner
- May 11, 2021
An origin shield is a protective measure that shields your origin server(s) from overload, ensuring high availability,...
- Guillaume Quintard
- May 7, 2021
Did you know that Hitch is now available as a container image on the dockerhub? I'm asking because it's time to revisit...
video delivery
ott streaming
varnish for streaming
live video content delivery
video on demand
live video streaming
OTT video streaming
- Henry Choi
- May 5, 2021
In the diverse Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, over-the-top (OTT) video streaming has exceeded growth expectations and...
- Alexandra Lehner
- April 30, 2021
Higher-ed was already experimenting heavily in hybrid and completely online learning before Covid-19, with extensive...
- Thijs Feryn
- April 28, 2021
Varnish offers a multitude of modules that extend standard VCL capabilities for specific use cases and improve the...
- Miles Weaver
- April 23, 2021
Varnish Cache is now available as an app on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace! Visit the listing page here. Alibaba Cloud is...
- Alexandra Barcelona
- April 21, 2021
The level of global video streaming has skyrocketed since the Covid-19 crisis began, with more people staying at home,...
e-commerce
optimizing mobile for e-commerce
optimize mobile content delivery
e-commerce strategy
mobile e-commerce
mCommerce
- Alexandra Lehner
- April 8, 2021
With the always-on nature of e-commerce in a world changed by a pandemic, retailers of all kinds have shifted toward...
- Andrew Wiik
- April 7, 2021
Your website's speed is not only important to your users, but also to Google. Google factors your page speed into your...
- Miles Weaver
- March 30, 2021
Online retailers have lived and died by the pre-Black Friday/holiday season code freeze almost since the dawn of...
Varnish Software
private CDN solution
business benefits of hybrid DIY CDN
Content Delivery World
multi-CDN
- Peter Löfling
- March 23, 2021
For many years content owners, ISPs and other companies with content to deliver or stream have put their trust in large...
- Kristian Biggs
- March 22, 2021
The first thing that struck me after starting at Varnish Software earlier this year was that the whole organization,...
high availability
e-commerce
origin shield
intelligent caching
e-commerce performance
high performance
e-commerce strategy
- Jonatan Lindgren
- March 16, 2021
In 2021, as the Covid pandemic that pushed e-commerce into the dominant way of shopping, it became clear that existing...
- Alexandra Lehner
- March 15, 2021
When Netflix launched in the APAC region, different concerns surfaced that highlighted just how different the video...
- Fredrik Steen
- March 11, 2021
We’re very excited to introduce Varnish Controller to the world! Our new administration console for managing Varnish...
- Arianna Aondio
- March 4, 2021
Caching is good. What if, though, you could increase caching efficiency by letting some objects through the net, and...
- Miles Weaver
- March 2, 2021
When we discuss rethinking broadcasting in a streaming world, we all acknowledge that we’ve redefined what TV really...
video streaming
ott streaming
varnish for streaming
broadcasting trends
live video streaming
OTT video streaming
- Alexandra Barcelona
- February 23, 2021
Sometime during the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic, video streaming, which had already gained a foothold in terms of...
- Guillaume Quintard
- February 11, 2021
One aspect of Varnish that customers and enthusiasts most often ask questions about is how to make more effective use...
- Miles Weaver
- February 3, 2021
All predictions indicate that 5G is already a game changer for a number of industries. Gaming is no exception.
caching
Content Delivery World
5G
sustainability
carbon footprint
IT footprint
co2 emissions
cache efficiency
global energy
- Alexandra Lehner
- January 28, 2021
When 2020 began, we predicted that the year would not just be “more of the same”. We were thinking in terms of...
CDNs
Varnish High Availability
5G
low-latency
mobile edge computing
Gaming Trends
Gaming
Gaming CDN
CDN for gaming
PoPs
- Alexandra Lehner
- January 14, 2021
Game downloads and updates have become behemoth in size (e.g., 200GB for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare) and continue to...
Varnish Software
Varnish Software Partners
news
webinar
brotli
varnish cloud
5G
high performance
Memory Governor
in-process TLS
Varnish Edge Cloud
- Miles Weaver
- December 17, 2020
This blog post is “best of” covering our biggest news and most popular content from the last twelve months. It’s been a...
- Miles Weaver
- December 14, 2020
There are a lot of ways to look at “cloud gaming” because much of gaming today doesn’t happen without an assist from...
- Jonatan Lindgren
- December 8, 2020
While people have used their mobile phones for gaming almost since the dawn of the mobile phone, the computing power,...
- Guillaume Quintard
- December 4, 2020
A few weeks ago, I wrote and post introducing the concept of Hit-for-Miss and I received a few questions about it...
e-commerce
web performance
holiday shopping
Black Friday
optimizing mobile for e-commerce
Singles' Day
Amazon Prime Day
cyber five
- Alexandra Barcelona
- December 2, 2020
The 2020 Cyber Five shopping period broke all previous records for Cyber Five spending, coming in at about 38 billion...
tech predictions
multi-CDN
Gaming Community
multi-CDN Strategies
Gaming Trends
Twitch
Gaming
Gaming CDN
CDN for gaming
- Miles Weaver
- November 30, 2020
Gaming is more than just big business -- it has a reach, importance and influence that belies its once niche status....
- Alexandra Lehner
- November 26, 2020
Technology evolves alongside what is demanded of it. This is true for digital content delivery and more specifically...
e-commerce
Black Friday
web performance black friday
e-commerce strategy
cyber five
mobile e-commerce
- Alexandra Barcelona
- November 24, 2020
Thanks to Covid-19, 2020 has been a year in which e-commerce leapt ahead of all expectations to achieve a decade’s...
- Alexandra Lehner
- November 19, 2020
Multi-CDN strategies have changed the content delivery landscape, making it more competitive and comprehensive as...
high availabiity
streaming
cache invalidation
web traffic
caching technology
US presidential election 2020
live video streaming
- Alexandra Barcelona
- November 17, 2020
US election night news coverage during presidential election years are usually “event” TV, so attracting...
- Miles Weaver
- November 12, 2020
We’re excited to announce that Varnish Cache is now available as an app on the DigitalOcean marketplace, the premier...
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