Cache Invalidation in Varnish

When talking about caching, nearly all the attention goes to ensuring that content is properly stored in the cache. While that makes total sense from a performance perspective, people tend to forget that removing objects from the cache is equally as important.

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8/7/23 4:22 PM
by Thijs Feryn

Two-Minute Tech Tuesdays - Purging

In this week's 2-Minute Tech Tuesday we'll be talking about "purging", which is Varnish's built-in mechanism to remove non-expired objects from the cache.

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8/31/21 3:14 PM
by Thijs Feryn

Purge and proxies, a love-hate affair

So, you've started using Varnish (and you're loving it) and that constant hammering about having a cache invalidation strategy got through to you: you finally decided to write the VCL to purge objects from your beautiful cache. That's good!

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6/1/16 12:30 PM
by Guillaume Quintard

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The Varnish blog is where our team writes about all things related to Varnish Cache and Varnish Software...or simply vents.

 

 
 

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