Varnish Software - Year in Review 2021

This blog post covers some of our most important news and most popular content from 2021. Read on to catch up the new features, solutions, benchmarks and talks we’ve put out this year.

Happy Holidays!

Setting records with Varnish Enterprise

We reached a new performance milestone this year, working with Intel to reach 500 Gbps throughput on commercially available software! This record-setting result will help service providers handle future demand for UHD streaming while balancing costs.

Download the whitepaper to find out more!

We launched the Varnish Developer Portal

The Varnish DevPortal is a place for developers to learn about Varnish Cache, Varnish Enterprise and VCL. Save it to your bookmarks for easy access to all tools you need to achieve Varnish mastery, including:

• Tutorials
• Documentation
• Downloads
• Support

Check it out!

Varnish 6 by Example - physical copies now available!

This year, we released the ultimate guide to caching with Varnish - Varnish 6 by Example. Originally available as a free PDF, it’s now available in hard copy. Click on the link below to get your copy and have the comprehensive reference guide to Varnish, full of tips, tricks and walkthroughs for the whole range of features, VMODs and use cases.

Get your copy on Amazon.

New Varnish tools and features

It was a huge year for development of the Varnish platform. Some of the solutions and features we introduced this year include:

• Traffic Router
• Slicer VMOD
• Image VMOD
• Controller 3.0
• Transit Buffer
• Accounting VMOD
• Probeproxy VMOD
• Udo VMOD
• URI VMOD
• Delayed cache insert

A year in webinars

Three webinars proved very popular:

• Traffic Router: Manage all your traffic through a Varnish dashboard
• When CDNs fail: staying online with an origin shield
• Understanding Varnish logging and intelligence 

Check out all of our webinars, here.