Guillaume Quintard

Guillaume Quintard

Director of Technical Enterprise accounts at Varnish Software

Ending the pipe dream: when to use pipe in Varnish

As you may know, part of my job consists of helping Varnish users, both customers and community users (join us on...

Configuration tales: Protecting a flaky API server

Varnish is a powerhouse, and a lot of the use cases you'll see about it are about delivering stellar performance,...

Stay sane: Drain to avoid pain and bane

Some time ago, we discussed backend pools and how to load-balance inside them using directors, remember? During the...

Painful Varnish mistakes

This post was initially titled "Top 6 Varnish mistakes", to echo Espen's blog. Even though his material is three years...

Varnish and Docker: First contact

Docker has been on my radar for quite some years now, but, I have to admit, as a C developer, I never really cared...

Sizing a Varnish platform: Live streaming

There's a recurring discussion I get myself into, and it goes roughly like this: - I want to stream live video, what...