Name: Basic Authentication: 2 Minute Tech Breakdown
Start: 2023-03-07T08:00:00Z
End: 2023-03-07T08:03:21.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Varnish Software’s powerful caching technology helps the world’s biggest content providers deliver lightning-fast web and streaming experiences for huge audiences, without downtime or performance loss.

Whether you’re using Varnish Cache to speed up your own website, deploying Varnish Enterprise on a large-scale streaming operation, caching large objects, or computing at the edge, it’s important to dial into proven caching best practices to maximize your investment.
 
In this vein, Thijs Feryn and Arianna Aondio of Varnish Software share with you 10 crucial tips, tricks, and best practices that, once utilized, will immediately add value to your Varnish setup. Tune into this webinar session to glean these takeaways, which include:

- How to benefit from built-in VCL
- Avoiding misconfigured memory
- Why you shouldn’t set your TTL to zero
- And more!

Website Caching: 10 Best Practices & Pitfalls to Avoid

Transport Layer Security, TLS, is a standard security protocol for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client. TLS allows sensitive data (like your financial information, personal data, etc.) to be transmitted securely.

There are several ways to set up and configure TLS in Varnish. Join us in this webinar where we'll show you:
• How to terminate TLS in Varnish Cache by leveraging the PROXY protocol
• You’ll also learn about native TLS support in Varnish Enterprise + how to manage certificates 
• And various Varnish modules to obtain TLS information in VCL

Securing Your Site: Setting up TLS in Varnish

Varnish is the world's most powerful and flexible HTTP cache that is used to accelerate more than 10 million websites globally. A big part of its attraction, besides its industry leading performance, is the Varnish Configuration Language (VCL).

VCL is a domain-specific programming language that powers Varnish. It is used to configure the caching policies and to control the way Varnish interacts with both the client and the origin web server.

Having a full-blown programming language to describe the configuration of your cache gives you unparalleled flexibility to tune the behavior of the cache to your exact needs.

In this webinar you will learn the basic syntax of VCL, the way VCL controls the behavior of Varnish and some common use cases.

We'll teach you how to inspect and modify incoming requests, create policies to bypass the cache, control the time to live of cached objects, modify responses, manage cache variations, make decisions on the edge and many other tips and tricks that allow you to go beyond the capabilities of HTTP's built-in caching mechanisms.

Thanks to VCL and the rich ecosystem of Varnish modules (VMODs) you can go from caching on the edge  with Varnish to full-blown edge compute.

Varnish Configuration Language 101: Basic Controls, Use Cases, & Benefits

We'll talk about varnishncsa, a tool that produces Varnish logs in the NCSA-style log format.

Varnish Logs with Varnishcsa: 2 Minute Tech Breakdown

Load balancing allows Varnish to distribute backend requests to multiple backend servers. This video shows how to leverage the "directors" VMOD to distribute the load using various distribution algorithms.

Load Balancing - Distributing Backend Requests: 2 Minute Tech Breakdown

Having a full-blown programming language to describe the configuration of your cache gives you unparalleled flexibility to tune the behavior of the cache to your exact needs. Enter Varnish, one of the world's most powerful and flexible HTTP caches that can accelerate more than 10 million websites globally.

A big part of its attraction, besides its leading performance, is the Varnish Configuration Language (VCL). VCL is a domain-specific programming language that powers Varnish and is used to configure the caching policies and to control the way Varnish interacts with both the client and the origin web server. 

In this webinar you will learn the basic syntax of VCL, the way VCL controls the behavior of Varnish, and common use cases, such as how to evolve from simply caching on the edge to full-blown edge compute.

Tune into the session to learn how to inspect and modify incoming requests, control the time to live of cached objects, manage cache variations, make decisions on the edge and many other tips and tricks that allow you to go beyond the capabilities of HTTP's built-in caching mechanisms.

Transports client connection information across multiple proxy servers. It is used by Varnish to facilitate TLS termination.

Using Proxy Protocol to Transport Information - Two Minute Tech Breakdown

Hitch, an open source TLS proxy we develop and maintain. Hitch can be used to terminate TLS, which is especially useful if you're using Varnish Cache.

Using Hitch to Terminate TLS with Varnish - Two Minute Tech Breakdown

The built-in VCL is the VCL code that is executed by default even if you don't write any VCL yourself.

Built-in VCL (Varnish Configuration Language) - Two Minute Tech Breakdowns

A recent survey conducted by 451 on 2021 Holiday Shopping trends found that more than 44% of people will abandon their online purchases due to poor website performance. Everyone knows the frustration of trying to make a purchase on a slow site or trying to fill out a form only to have an image load and bump down the submit button. While these are major frustrations for users, these performance issues also have a real impact on your bottom line.

In this webinar, Join Sheryl Kingstone, Head of Customer Experience & Commerce & Voice of Connected User Landscape at 451 Research, and Adrian Herrera, CMO at Varnish Software, discuss the issues keeping digital commerce sites from exceeding their online sales goals and what you can do quickly to make sure your site is optimized for the upcoming holiday shopping season.

Here’s what you’ll learn from this webinar. How to:

- Improve performance metrics
- Improve the overall search experience
- Manage a more accelerated personalized experience
- Optimize the mobile experience

Don't Let Poor Website Performance Impact Your Bottom Line This Holiday Season

Whether you’re using Varnish Cache to speed up your own website or deploying Varnish Enterprise on a large scale streaming operation, this webinar will have crucial tips and tricks for you.

From caching large objects to computing at the edge, join Thijs and Arianna as they discuss best practices which you can use to immediately add value to your Varnish setup.

Here is just a taste of what you can expect when you join us:

> How to benefit from built-in VCL
> Avoiding misconfigured memory
> Understanding Varnish logging
> The right way to use TTL
> And more!

Top 10 Dos and Don'ts When Caching Your Website

If your CDN fails, your website drops offline, taking your audience and revenue with it. 

In this webinar we’ll show how an origin shield can save you in an outage, so you can keep reaching your audience while other websites go down. 

As a caching layer between your servers and CDN, an origin shield also protects against the traffic impact of revalidating CDN nodes. They can even serve content if the origin itself goes offline.

Discover the easy way to defend against downtime and learn how to:

- Serve web content when your CDN fails
- Protect origin servers from high traffic
- Implement an origin shield, including sizing
- Maintain uptime as your origin fails
- We're also doing a live demo of a CDN outage to show manual and automatic failover strategies using an easy-to-implement Varnish solution

When CDNs Fail: Staying Online with an Origin Shield

If not quite as riveting as the latest Netflix blockbuster, the evolution of OTT products – and related technologies – has been a fascinating watch. 

We’ve gone from legacy systems to specialized supply chains, from one device to super-fragmentation, from build to buy to buy-the-builders and back again. 

What will the next five years look like for OTT products and tech stacks?

Together with Nehal Mehta from Intel, Matt Westrup from A+E Networks, Joakim Berg from Varnish Software and Kauser Kanji from VOD Professional, we explore:

- The challenges and opportunities that come with 5G
- Creating new high-quality, buffer-free, digital experiences for consumers
- Handling the transition from broadcast to IP delivery
- On a related note, the future of content delivery over the next 5 years
- And some items that may make it on to the product development roadmaps over the period

The Future of Streaming Technologies: The Next 5 Years

Your website’s revenue is directly tied to its performance, especially during critical sales periods like Black Friday. Amazon, for example, sees a 1% revenue decrease for every 100ms increase in load time. Another study shows that websites with 1 second load times have 3x higher conversion rates than sites loading in 5 seconds.

Google Lighthouse makes it easy to understand your website’s Core Web Vitals, which are the key metrics for website performance. The better the Lighthouse score, the better the SEO, conversions and revenue.

During this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to improve website performance with Varnish, and then measure the difference using Google Lighthouse.

After this presentation, you can have everything in place to capture more revenue on Black Friday and beyond. You’ll learn how to:

1) Improve bounce, conversion rates to increase sales
2) Support excellent experiences on any device
3) Manage traffic spikes and security risks cost effectively

3 Ways to Prepare Your Site for Black Friday and Increase Revenue

Core Web Vitals are the key metrics for understanding your website’s overall user experience. 

Tools like Google Lighthouse capture these essential statistics, with a good Lighthouse score meaning better search rankings and SEO, more traffic, more conversions and more revenue.

We’ll show you how to take your Lighthouse score to 100 in under an hour, without modifying any HTML. 

Varnish Enterprise boosts web vitals directly from the edge, making it easy to deliver seamless web experiences for your audience without touching your website’s code. And we’re going to prove it!

Amongst other tips and tricks, you’ll learn how to:

- Cache content effectively
- Compress images on the fly
- Eliminate render-blocking resources
... and more!

How to Improve Core Web Vitals with Caching

VCL - The Language that Powers Varnish Cache and Other Varnish Features

We'll use Varnish as an authentication gateway to handle basic authentication.

Basic Authentication: 2 Minute Tech Breakdown

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