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How Norway’s most popular news site uses Varnish VCS to monitor web traffic and resolve problems in real-time

When we launched Varnish Custom Statistics (VCS) last year it was referred to as “debugging heaven”. Now that VCS has...

The essential vmods all Varnish users should know about

Approximately two years ago we released Varnish Cache 3.0. In my view the most important feature was the support for...

Fighting the high costs of poor web performance

We’ve just released a new whitepaper on the high costs of poor web performance, the causes, related risks and if an...

The Varnish plugin on New Relic's new platform

When New Relic (NR) approached us about building a Varnish plugin for their new platform we thought it was a great...

Advanced cache invalidation strategies

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” -- Phil Karlton Today, I’ll...

Speculative Lock Elision in Varnish Cache

This year we’ve seen quite an interesting announcement from Intel. Their Haswell processors are now on sale. Usually we...