Guillaume Quintard

Guillaume Quintard

Director of Technical Enterprise accounts at Varnish Software

Latest Articles

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Painful Varnish mistakes

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