Varnish Internals - Speeding up a site x100 (Mattias Geniar)

Varnish Internals - Speeding up a site x100 (Mattias Geniar)

In this talk we'll look at the internals of Varnish, a reverse proxy with powerful caching abilities.

We'll walk through an HTTP request end-to-end, manipulate it change it in ways that no one should ever do in production - but it'll proof how powerful Varnish can be.

Varnish is a load balancer, caching engine, its own scripting language and a fun way to deep-dive in to the HTTP protocol.

Mattias Geniar

Mattias is a sysadmin, PHP developer, manager, dad & all-round geek. There's no such thing as devops, just teams that communicate clearly.

Twitter : @mattiasgeniar