Tag Archives: cache

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)

Zend_Cache_Frontend_Page & Google Analytics cookies

Last week I was optimizing the caching strategy for one of my projects and I was under the false impression that caching was accelerating my website. At that time I was using Zend_Cache_Backend_File as my backend and cache files were created. My goal was to boost the performance by implementing the Zend_Cache_Backend_Memcached backend. Again everything …

June 1, 2009 – 8:13 pm | By Thijs | Posted in PHP, Zend Framework | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)