2024-11-28 –, Jean Ferri Auditorium
Language: English
Varnish is a reverse caching proxy that accelerates HTTP applications like Plone. This session focuses on the best practices to setup and configure Varnish in a Plone setup at massive scale.
Scalability of websites and applications is often challenging.
Using a caching proxy like Varnish, can alleviate a lot of pressure from the infrastructure and make applications faster. Plone caters to those needs with built-in caching HTTP features, and support for caching proxies.
In this session we’ll be looking at some Varnish best practices to scale your Plone setup and handle massive amounts of requests.
We’ll talk about:
- HTTP caching headers
- The Varnish Configuration Language (VCL)
- Cache revalidation & stale content
- Cache purging strategies
- Content negotation & authentication
- Parameter tuning & cache storage configuration
- Kubernetes deployments
- Select enterprise features
- Plone-specific configurations
- Troubleshooting & observability
Technical Evangelist Varnish Software, author of Getting Started with Varnish Cache & Varnish 6 by Example. International speaker with a track record of over 340 presentations in 24 countries.