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Flying without turbines: Compiler-less Varnish Cache

Varnish Cache uses the gcc compiler by default. If you need it to run without the compiler, for whatever reason, we can...

Real-time statistics API with VAC

Varnish Administration Console (VAC) is broken up into two major components. Its Management UI, and a RESTful API, with...

Switching behavior dynamically in Varnish

From time to time we see the need for Varnish to switch behavior based on an external event. Let's have a look at how...

Testing the persistent storage engine

Last week I spent quite a bit of time toying with the Varnish persistent storage engine. The long term goal of the...

Security: Rejecting offending connections

Once upon a time DDoS attacks where something rare. Now, not a week goes by without such an attack on a customer or a...

Varnish 3.0 - the Standard Module

Module support is perhaps the most exciting feature of Varnish Cache 3.0. It makes it really easy to add quite complex...