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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...

Varnish API Engine 2.0 launch

We’ve certainly heard the chorus of voices discussing APIs and API management of late. We are convinced, though, that...