Guillaume Quintard

Guillaume Quintard

Director of Technical Enterprise accounts at Varnish Software

PSA: You don't need that many regexes

HTTP is an intrinsically textual protocol, with relatively few rules. So it makes sense for Varnish to provide you with...

Using obj.hits, clearly a hit and miss affair

VCL is awesome, but it's also a bit frightening to newcomers, and most of the time, people are more interested in...

Howto: use one VCL per domain

The Varnish Configuration Language (VCL), I'm sure you know already, is the source of Varnish versatility: by only...

Announcing Varnish Cash: High performance for the Blockchain

Blockchain fever has finally reached mainstream status with more than a thousand listed cryptocurrencies, and we feel...

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,...