Per Buer

Per Buer

Introducing Varnish Massive Storage Engine

Varnish was initially made for website acceleration. We started out using a memory-mapped file to store objects in. It...

Scaling up the dmcache tests

Following up on the test of dmcache we decided to scale it up a bit, to get better proportions between RAM, SSD and...

Accelerating your HDD with dm-cache or bcache

Varnish Cache has a history of relying on the operating system kernel for its performance. I’ve been keeping an eye on...

Major new product releases scheduled for the Varnish Summits

Announcement: For the last year we’ve been doing quite a bit of development which we’re finally ready to present. We...

Still using the GET and HEAD commands? Meet httpie

I've been using libwww-perl's GET, POST and HEAD commands for the last ten years at least. Typing "GET -Used" is more...

Partitioning your Varnish Cache

If you have multiple virtual hosts being handled by the same server you sometimes want some sort of QoS to apply to...