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Varnish HTTP cache server - by Poul-Henning Kamp

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Configuration, Set-Up & Performance

Varnish HTTP cache server - by Poul-Henning Kamp

Day:  Tuesday, 24. august 2010
Time:  13:30-14:30
45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

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varnish | performance | poul-henning kamp

Varnish is a very fast HTTP cache server, which is to your Drupal what a big rotation press is to a newspapers DTP system.

Want to deliver thousands of pages per second with very low responsetime ? Varnish is your tool for that.

And Facebooks, and BBCs, and SlashDots, and ...

In this talk the author of Varnish will show off his warez, lift the hood and make you think about servers and content delivery in an entirely new way.

Resources

Resources:  http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/ http://phk.freebsd.dk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp

If you are interested in

5. July 2010 - 11:47

If you are interested in Varnish, you should definitively take this session. But you should also consider the session Accelerate your web sites with Varnish.
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While Poul-Henning Kamp "will show off his warez, lift the hood and make you think about servers and content delivery in an entirely new way," I will show you how to install and configure Varnish to play along with Pressflow/Drupal.
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See also Lars S Linnet's comment and my answer.

Thomas Barregren

I think the simple way to

8. July 2010 - 12:26

I think the simple way to explain this is that I give the "why Varnish talk", Thomas gives the "how Varnish talk".

Poul-Henning Kamp