If you’re familiar at all with Varnish, you know it improves content delivery performance by storing a copy of your content in cache, and every request thereafter is fulfilled by the cached content.

As we launch into the tenth-year anniversary festivities for Varnish Cache, we thought it would be a great time to dig into the history and take a look back at how your favorite web app accelerator started.

Varnish is for lovers of flexible solutions for creating high-performance, scalable websites. It’s for lovers of open source and for taking advantage of the freedom to create your own unique solutions.