As principal members of the Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), Varnish Software supports all standardization and interoperability work related to Open Caching. Of course, more broadly, we are also committed to open standards. 

In our second blog post in the series about differences between Varnish Enterprise and Varnish Cache (read part 1, Project or Product) , we’re going to focus on support and other professional services. Support encompasses all the guidance and help Varnish Software provides before, during and after Varnish is installed. It’s a crucial reason for Varnish Enterprise’s existence - many organizations require it.

This is the first in a short series of blog posts designed to help you understand the differences between Varnish Enterprise and Varnish Cache (check out post 2 on support services and post 3 on performance and security). It’s all about finding the right tool for the job; Varnish Enterprise and Varnish Cache are not in competition with each other. Whatever your content delivery goals, one of these Varnish solutions will be more suited to the task.

To begin, we’re talking about the differences between projects and products.

folks are already hacking away in @ben_hall's tutorial on @docker #security and performance models today at #OSCON pic.twitter.com/6w1Puah6pv

— loro inc (@loro_inc) May 19, 2016

OSCON was a blast! I can't compare it to other conventions since it's my first, but the organization was a very well-oiled machine and it really allowed everyone - exhibitors and visitors alike - to really focus on the heart of this event: Open Source. Being invited by GitHub (thanks Jono, Brian and the whole team), we were located in a pretty central booth at the Open Source Alley, where we had to handle a lot of traffic (but that's cool, we're Varnish, we know how to handle that).

...and a little #OSCON booths #3 w/ @github because awesome booth! pic.twitter.com/iVh2TYpw39

— Λdrøn (@adron) July 22, 2015