Category Archives: Varnish

My custom Zend Framework ESI view helper

I’ve been a fan of Zend Framework for some time now and I’ve recently become quite a fan of Varnish. As you all know, Varnish is an extremely powerful reverse caching proxy (although the Varnish people prefer the term HTTP accelerator). Varnish supports a subset of the ESI language and I’ve written a custom Zend …

February 19, 2011 – 8:20 pm | By Thijs | Posted in PHP, Varnish, Zend Framework | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Speaking at ConFoo

I’m very proud to announce that I’ll speaking at the 2011 edition of ConFoo in Montreal (Canada) in the beginning of March.

January 4, 2011 – 8:24 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences, PHP, Varnish | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Varnish cache purging

Varnish is a very popular HTTP accelerator. One of its key features is caching. When dealing with caching, it is always tricky to do correct Time To Live estimations. Especially when the trade-off is caching efficiently versus serving fresh content. To tackle that issue, you can invalidate cache entries via purging.

November 13, 2010 – 5:25 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Varnish | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)