Varnish, The Good, The Awesome, and the Downright Crazy
MinneBar 7 Session
Summary: Learn how Varnish can cache your site for performance you never thought possible.
Website: http://speakerdeck.com/u/mwillbanks/p/varnish-the-good-the-awesome-and-the-downright-crazy
Time: 14:50 to 15:35
Room: Nokomis
Mike Willbanks is a software engineer manager at CaringBridge, a nonprofit providing free websites that connect people experiencing a significant health challenge to family and friends. He has more than a decade of experience programming the web with the majority being with PHP. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and focuses on high availability and high performance applications. Mike organizes the MNPHP User Group and has a passion for knowledge sharing and contributing back to the community.
Varnish cache is a front-end caching server that can literally save your rear when traffic starts to hit a new level. Varnish is all about scale and minimalizing the need for extra web servers when they are unnecessary. This talk will discuss the reasons you should use varnish and why it is good, show examples of how it can literally scale your website to handling a slashdotting effect, pushing through to handling more efficiently and then showing you how to do this with dynamic content.
Now the down right crazy? Well you might just have to come and see how the cache can be utilized to make even the dynamic portions of your website scale beyond what you even thought possible.
