Accelerate your web sites with Varnish

TBarregren — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:14:19 +0000

Type: Not planned session

Learn how to install, configure and monitoring Varnish Cache - an increasingly popular reverse proxy cache that accelerates content-heavy dynamic web sites.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Varnish is a reverse proxy cache. It accelerate your web site by caching responses from your web server and thereby offloading Drupal. Varnish is a modern solution outperforming its competing products by as much as twenty times. That is the reason for its increasing popularity as web accelerator.

Audience

This session is for anyone who is not afraid to manage Linux servers, but who has not yet looked into Varnish.

What you will learn

In this session you will learn:

What Varnish is.
When to use Varnish.

Make performance a non-issue with Varnish

perbu — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:20:10 +0000

Type: Not planned session

Instead of focusing all your energy on tuning Drupal, PHP and MySQL you can easily just add coating of Varnish on Drupal and you'll have solved your problems forever.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Varnish Cache is a web accelerator, also known as a caching reverse proxy or a HTTP accelerator.

This talk focuses on what Varnish does, how Varnish achieves its performance levels, its architecture and future development. Experiences from applying Varnish to varnish-cache.org (a trac site) and varnish-software.com (Drupal 6 Pressflow) is presented.

DrupalCon Copenhagen August 23-27 2010 - caching

Accelerate your web sites with Varnish

Audience

What you will learn

Make performance a non-issue with Varnish