Name: Website Caching: 10 Best Practices & Pitfalls to Avoid
Start: 2023-04-27T15:00:00Z
End: 2023-04-27T15:01:17.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.4

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.

Slow access to universal repository managers, registries, and packages can cripple developer productivity and inflate cloud costs. Many organizations struggle with the operational overhead and performance bottlenecks of traditional artifact delivery, leading to frustration and delays. All of this is even starting to evolve into a widespread dissatisfaction with some existing solutions, especially among large-scale users.

Join Varnish Software's Guillaume Quintard, Technical Director, Solutions Engineering, and Adrian Herrera, GM North America & CMO, for a conversation on how intelligent caching strategies can dramatically accelerate your DevOps workflows. They'll explore the pros and cons of existing approaches like centralized repositories, vendor-specific caches, and traditional CDN solutions. Discover how a simple, yet incredibly powerful, vendor-neutral caching solution can act as an easy-to-manage, scalable and secure artifact delivery layer.

Register now to learn how to:

- Boost Developer Productivity: Drastically reduce download times for all your packages and artifacts.
- Simplify Management: Provide a unified, high-performance access layer for diverse package types and registries.
- Enable Universal Access: Securely cache private content and access credentials while seamlessly integrating with existing access controls.
- Slash Costs: Minimize cloud egress fees and reduce load on your origin artifact repositories and CI/CD infrastructure.

APAC Webinar: From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: Accelerating Artifact Delivery Across DevOps

Slow builds, long deployments, and rising cloud bills are common problems in modern CI/CD pipelines. Every Git clone, Docker pull, or package fetch adds latency and traffic, leading to slower builds and higher costs.

In this hands-on webinar, Thijs Feryn (Technical Evangelist) and Alve Elde (Principal Engineer) from Varnish Software will show how to speed up GitHub Actions pipelines using caching strategies with GitOps deployments. The session includes a live demo where microservices are built, packaged, and deployed to a Kubernetes cluster with GitHub Actions, a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner, and ArgoCD. You’ll see how to deploy an Artifact Cache to reduce traffic to GitHub and artifact repositories hosted in JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus.

Key caching scenarios include:
- Git clones and fetches
- Docker images and Helm charts
- NPM packages, Go modules, and Rust packages

You’ll also learn how a Varnish-powered artifact caching layer accelerates GitHub Actions, shortens deployment times, and lowers infrastructure and egress costs, by positioning caches exactly where they’re needed for maximum speed and efficiency.

How to Accelerate GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipelines with Artifact Caching for Docker, Helm, Git, and More

Accelerate Universal Artifact Delivery: Caching Strategies for Faster Repositories, CI/CD, and DevOps Workflows

Are you getting the most from your cloud storage, or are high costs and performance lags holding you back? For businesses operating at scale, managing cloud storage is critical but challenging—especially with the rising costs of object storage like AWS S3. In this exclusive webinar, hear from experts Thijs Feryn, Tech Evangelist, and Adrian Herrera, CMO and GM North America at Varnish Software as they discuss the issues at stake.

Join us to learn how to maximize cloud performance and reduce costs using cutting-edge techniques, including S3 shielding. You’ll gain valuable insights on:
- The top object storage challenges businesses are facing today: performance and costs
- Why AWS alone may not be enough to solve these issues
- What S3 shielding is and how it works
- How Varnish can help shield your S3 buckets for improved performance and lower costs

APAC Webinar: Engineering Storage at Scale: Object & Cloud Best Practices

In this episode, Varnish Core Developer, Pål Hermunn Johansen will dive into cache effectiveness beyond hits and misses, including pass and synth. Learn how to optimize your hit rate and cache effectiveness in under 30 minutes.

Cache Smarter: Understanding Pass, Synth, and Hit Optimization

Every second counts. Slow artifact retrieval and Artifactory bottlenecks can damage productivity and delay business-critical software development tasks. At enterprise scale, the challenge only gets more complicated, with additional infrastructure, traffic and licensing overheads also putting the brakes on business growth.

On the other hand, DevOps teams that can get up and running quickly every day are ones that thrive.

This webinar session will dive into the challenges of managing artifacts at scale and why accelerating these processes is crucial in today's automated CI/CD pipeline environments. Varnish Technical Evangelist Thijs Feryn will take us through how caching can be used to optimize DevOps workflows through applications like JFrog Artifactory. He will cover how innovative development teams have leveraged caching to reduce developer wait time by up to 80%, improve performance by up to 25% and reduce costs by up to 20%.

Wherever you fit into the software development supply chain, this webinar will equip you with knowledge and strategies to improve your organization's DevOps efficiency and reduce operating costs. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to leverage Varnish for optimal Artifactory performance!

APAC Webinar: Supercharge DevOps Productivity by Scaling Artifact Workflows

Modern organizations rely on external dependencies for software development, testing, and delivery. Fast artifact delivery is critical to DevOps workflows—any delay can slow deployments and impact developer productivity.

But by offloading CI/CD system pressure and positioning caches closer to developers, you can reduce network latency, minimize wait times, and improve overall efficiency. 

In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to accelerate DevOps artifact delivery by caching key assets like Docker images, Debian packages, and NPM libraries using Varnish Enterprise, a leading caching and data acceleration platform.

Join us for a hands-on session featuring real-world examples across various artifact management platforms, demonstrating how Varnish optimizes artifact delivery and enhances Quality of Service in diverse DevOps environments.

Accelerate DevOps Artifact Delivery of Docker images, NPM & Debian packages with Varnish: Boost Efficiency & Performance

Overcoming the Challenges of Scaling Object & Cloud Storage

Protect Your Performance, Network Latency, and Costs.

S3 is the de facto standard for object storage in the cloud. It is known for its scalability, global availability, ease of use, and pay as you go payment model. So why do you need to shield your S3 buckets? Two main reasons: performance & network latency, and cost. We dive into this and more in our latest video.

Join Varnish Technical Evangelist, Thijs Feryn, to learn about S3, why you should shield your S3 buckets, and how to get started as he covers:

- What is S3 and why shield your S3 buckets
- How an S3 shield works
- Why use Varnish Enterprise as your shield
- Requirements and getting started

Plus, Thijs gets into the details of setting up an S3 Shield with multiple use cases, like Ansible, Cloud-init, Equinix Metal, AWS, AWS using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes using the Varnish Enterprise Helm Chart.

APAC Webinar: How Shielding Your S3 Buckets Improves Performance & Reduces Costs

Varnish and Magento go hand-and-hand when it comes to optimizing a customer's user experience in your online store, but did you know there is more that Varnish can do? Join us to learn about four key Varnish Enterprise features can help improve caching of your Magento store for optimal performance and scalability. 

In this webinar, Varnish Software Technical Evangelist, Thijs Feryn, gives a deep dive on each feature, including:

- End-to-end TLS
- Memory Governor
- Tag-based invalidation and soft purging
- Dynamic Backends

Learn how each feature drives real value for your Magento store and overall customer experience.

4 Varnish Enterprise Features That Will Improve the Caching of Your Magento Store

The supportive Varnish Cache community is always on hand to help others raise their Varnish game. Whether it’s answering questions on forums or chatting in the Varnish Cache Community group, Varnish experts are always happy to help others achieve their caching goals.

Stack Overflow is a popular place for asking questions about Varnish, so we thought: why not get some of the world’s leading experts on Varnish to answer some of the most pressing queries?

Join us for this talk where Varnish Core Developer, Pål Hermunn Johansen and Varnish Software Technical Evangelist, Thijs Feryn will be addressing common questions about Varnish Cache, sourced directly from Stack Overflow. We’d be delighted to see you! 

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn key tricks, maximize the performance of your Varnish setup and get one step closer to Varnish virtuosity!

APAC Webinar: Your Top Stack Overflow Questions  Answered by A Varnish Core Developer

Varnish Origin Shield is a software-based caching layer that sits between your origin and CDN edge servers. It reduces the amount of traffic hitting the origin, caching requested objects and quickly serving them onwards.

Why Your Web Service Needs an Origin Shield

Improve Performance and Reduce Costs by Shielding Your S3 Buckets

For latency-sensitive workloads, like streaming video and CI/CD pipelines, low latency matters. Enter: the private CDN.
 
Join us in this webinar, featuring experts Thijs Feryn, Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, and Charlie Lane, Principal Solutions Architect at Equinix, as they discuss how companies today are taking advantage of a private CDN hosted on a dedicated cloud offering to optimize their productivity and improve overall security and performance.
 
Why use a private CDN? For starters, the network, servers and the way you run the software all belong to you. Additionally, you have complete control and the ability to customize things the way you want them.
 
- Join us to learn how using a private CDN that is fully tailored to your needs can:
- Improve performance and quality of experience
- Increase scalability with your CDNs handling increased traffic without affecting performance
- Ensure reliability with redundant servers for high availability
- Optimize security thanks to CDNs protecting against DDoS attacks and providing SSL and encryption

The Advantages of a Private CDN

For the financial sector, out-of-date content, including incorrect trading and banking information is unacceptable. By not showing the most up to date content there is the risk of both enforcement actions by regulators as well as reputational damage in the eyes of customers and investors.

Caching the right content is a crucial part of web acceleration and content delivery solutions. However, keeping objects in the cache for too long can have even more severe consequences. Data inconsistency being one of them.

Leveraging cache invalidation helps businesses to stay compliant with EFTA & Regulation E, avoiding the risk of fines and fees, and even criminal liability in some cases.

Join our webinar to learn how to enhance your cache invalidation strategy to stay compliant and reduce costs.

How financial institutions can leverage cache invalidation to stay compliant

Did you know that removing objects from the cache is just as important as storing objects in the cache? Keeping objects in the cache for too long can result in data inconsistency.  Imagine breaking news not ending up on a news websites because the homepage is cached. 

Luckily Varnish has some built-in invalidation mechanisms to allow applications to forcefully remove objects from the cache. 
 
In this webinar we'll talk about: 
 - Purging
 - Soft purging
 - Banning
 - Secondary key

APAC: Cache Invalidation: What it is and How to Implement It

The web is used for more than websites & API calls these days: video content, DevOps artifacts, software updates and more are distributed over HTTP. For latency-sensitive workloads, like streaming video and CI/CD pipelines, low latency matters. Enter: the private CDN.


Experts Thijs Feryn, Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, and Charlie Lane, Principal Solutions Architect at Equinix, discuss how companies today are taking advantage of a private CDN hosted on a dedicated cloud offering to optimize their productivity and improve overall security and performance.


Join us to learn how using a private CDN that is fully tailored to your needs can:


Improve Performance: Faster object delivery due to proximity to users.
Increase Scalability: CDNs handle increased traffic without affecting performance.
Ensure Reliability: Redundant servers ensure high availability.
Optimize Security: CDNs protect against DDoS attacks and provide SSL and encryption.

Improving DevOps Productivity & Security with Private Content Delivery

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.

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

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

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