Videos tagged with Varnish


Surge 2011 ~ Getting the content out, from Heidelberg to Varnish

Surge 2011 ~ Getting the content out, from Heidelberg to Varnish

Posted in Web Technologies, Conferences

Today's newspaper finds few buyers tomorrow and an HTTP response arriving seconds after the request finds few readers. Getting the message efficiently delivered is an entirely different job than getting it written in the first place. This talk is about the thoughts behind and inspirations for the Varnish HTTP accelerator, which have set new standards for performance, flexibility and price in HT...

Tags: HTTP, Performance, Varnish, Software Design, surge, conference, OmniTI



Surge 2010 ~ Scaling and Loadbalancing Wikia Across The World

Surge 2010 ~ Scaling and Loadbalancing Wikia Across The World

Posted in Conferences

Wikia hosts around a 100 000 wikis using the open source Mediawiki software. In this talk I'll take a tour through the process of taking a legacy source code and turning it into a globally distributed system. Wikia runs across 6 datacenters in US and Europe, with half of them being CDN nodes and half being full datacenters. Traffic is directed to closest node depending on traffic situation. In ...

Tags: Scalability, Varnish, SSD, surge, conference, OmniTI