Olympic-Sized Scaling Visualized: Are You Ready for a Web Traffic Jam?

We’ve talked a lot about the technical challenges of streaming and broadcasting previous Olympic Games, and how predictions about demand are driving technology forward. We’ve talked about how big names scale up and use Varnish as a key enabler for scalability. As the Rio Olympics draws nearer, though, we realized that nothing seems quite as real as when you make it visual.

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2/19/16 9:49 AM
by Erika Wolfe

Varnish can power your website through the US Presidential Primaries 2016

The US election season is fully underway with the first-out-of-the-gate events behind us.

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2/16/16 9:30 AM
by Erika Wolfe

US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS & OTHER WEB TRAFFIC PEAKS

What happens every four years and drives media traffic sky high?

No, this is not the windup to a joke with a lame punchline. Instead it’s a warning about how much your website traffic can spike when big news events – like the US presidential election results – occur.

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1/18/16 8:33 AM
by Erika Wolfe

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