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Islands in the stream: Dailymotion live streaming delivery platform

Forgive my penchant for naming blog posts after cheesy songs – it simply cannot be helped. Reading about streaming and...

Do you want to extend the functionality of Varnish? Make it modular!

Varnish has an ecosystem for third-party modules – Varnish Cache Modules (VMODs). A VMOD is a shared library that can...

Conditional requests versus cache invalidation

If your content ever changes you’ll need some way to make sure the updated content reaches the users. The traditional...

Improved Varnish Custom Statistics - now with UI

Today we announce a significant upgrade of Varnish Custom Statistics (VCS). With this release we are bundling a whole...

Selenium Grid parallel automation testing for Varnish Administration Console

User acceptance testing is the last phase of the software testing process which evaluates the system functionality with...

Adding headers to gain insight into VCL

Varnish logs a lot. Sometimes it is a bit too much and verifying that your VCL works the way it is supposed to can be a...