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What is hit-for-pass in Varnish Cache?

There is a term in Varnish Cache that every Varnish Cache user should know: “Hit for pass”. Like other Varnish Cache...

Junk junk junk

When I give a Varnish training, one thing I use when we reach the topic of cache invalidation, is the following quote:...

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...