Calling 2022 a “big year” for Varnish Software would be an understatement.  

Over the last 12 months, we’ve experienced new levels of growth, achieved our greatest customer satisfaction scores to date, and unveiled pivotal new technologies and initiatives that strengthen our position as a leader in caching, streaming and content delivery solutions worldwide. 

As we wind up this momentous year, we wanted to share a few big end-of-year highlights and brief teasers of what’s to come. 

GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime for APIs, designed to give clients the specific data they need and make it easier to aggregate data from multiple sources. It aims to make APIs fast and flexible, and so is a common feature in the web stack of high traffic websites and e-commerce platforms. In these environments it’s often used to do things like fetch real-time price information and stock levels.

Varnish is a software-defined solution for all kinds of web performance challenges. As flexible caching software, it can cache and accelerate the delivery of anything HTTP, including APIs. While Varnish is commonly deployed for web acceleration, streaming delivery or custom CDN purposes, it is also very successful when applied to other workflows, including internal business applications.

In this blog post we’re exploring some aspects of Varnish Enterprise that enable what it is best known for: excellent performance. When we talk about the performance of caching servers, what do we mean?