2 articles and links tagged with “caching”

  1. Compiling Varnish on a minimal JeOS System
    May 09, 2009

    Varnish is an excellent-looking ‘HTTP accelerator’, designed specifically as a high-performance caching reverse-proxy to sit in front of your hard-working application servers, and relieve them of load. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass to install from source on JeOS, though.

  2. Generating Etags for static content using Nginx
    November 08, 2008

    Nginx is a brilliant little HTTP server that I'm using on this website to quickly serve static content. It bothers me a (very) little that it doesn’t correctly generate Etag headers for static content, however. I'm attempting to remedy that oversight by releasing an Nginx module: nginx-static-etags.

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