Follow The Rabbit

Varnish Cache (17)

Persistence in Varnish

My favorite Varnish branch these days is the persistence branch. Persistence was introduced in Varnish Cache 2.1 as en...

Counting syscall in Varnish Cache

Way back when we did a rough count on how many syscalls Varnish uses to deliver a piece of cache content. I think...

HTTP Streaming in Varnish

Since April this year we've been working with a few customers implementing proper support for streaming of objects in...

Varnish 3.0 changes - ESI and gzip

Finally Varnish 3.0 is feature complete and we're about to roll out a beta. All in all we've done quite a lot of...

Validating cookies in Varnish

or why VCL is the best thing since sliced bread.

The cookie monster

When Varnish Cache was designed, back in 2006, there where not that many caching proxies to talk of. There was, of...