Tag Archives: ttl

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

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.