In this week’s episode of Two-Minute Tech Tuesday, we'll talk about prefetching, a concept of proactively fetching content from the server that wasn't requested by the client. This ensures a good hit rate when the client eventually requests the prefetched content.

If you’re familiar with Varnish already, you know that VMODs extend Varnish functionality and give Varnish the kind of flexibility that helps you deliver content the way you want to. We recently published a brief overview of all currently available Varnish VMODs to give you a high-level overview of all the VMODs that currently exist and want to provide a bit more detail about what the newest VMODs can do for you.

Throughout the last couple of years live streaming has boomed, mostly helped by the rise of new technologies, i.e. the cloud, which made live streaming cheaper, more performant and more reliable.

Delivering live content requires a robust and performant architecture to make sure the final user has an excellent experience, especially because numerous competitors are appearing on the scene.