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WHY DIY CDN WINs

Last week we saw Cory Johnson of Bloomberg interviewing Akamai’s CEO, Tom Leighton, about the trend toward...

Who’s sorry now? The vital importance of web performance

A few weeks ago I got a handful of emails from a small, cool boutique hotel chain advertising their big promo to give...

Junk junk junk

When I give a Varnish training, one thing I use when we reach the topic of cache invalidation, is the following quote:...

Islands in the stream: Dailymotion live streaming delivery platform

Forgive my penchant for naming blog posts after cheesy songs – it simply cannot be helped. Reading about streaming and...

Do you want to extend the functionality of Varnish? Make it modular!

Varnish has an ecosystem for third-party modules – Varnish Cache Modules (VMODs). A VMOD is a shared library that can...

The backend of backends: Scaling for the junk in the trunk

When PAPER magazine published a series of nude Kim Kardashian photos in winter 2014, throngs clamored to see photo...