Name: Varnish Configuration Language 101: Basic Controls, Use Cases, & Benefits
Start: 2023-03-21T08:00:00Z
End: 2023-03-21T08:00:28.000Z
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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.

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

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

A recent survey conducted by 451 on 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, 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.

Join us to learn 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, 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!

APAC: Website Caching: 10 Best Practices & Pitfalls to Avoid

Cache Invalidation: What it is and How to Implement It

Almost all organizations rely on some form of content delivery. From websites to media to software. The transfer of data, internally and externally, over HTTP has been critical to the digital transformation of every industry. Historically, organizations turned to Content Delivery Networks (CDN) to serve these needs, however, the CDN market is consolidating as service providers of every size struggle to monetize traditional infrastructure that once was modern. 


All organizations that currently rely on CDNs need to take a very close look at what their options are if their primary CDN decides to exit the market. Due to advancements in Content Delivery Software (CDS), organizations that currently rely on traditional or modern CDNs should consider adding Private Content Delivery. This webinar will define the components of a CDN, and how advancements in servers, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and content delivery software now enable cost-effective, easier to manage private content delivery.

APAC: What Private Content Delivery is and Why it Matters

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!

Accelerate and Scale Artifact Workflows to Unleash DevOps Productivity

In this episode, Varnish Core Developer, Pål Hermunn Johansen and Varnish Technical Evangelist, Thijs Feryn will talk about how to overcome the challenges of caching authorized requests in an efficient way. The example code leverages vmod_http, a Varnish Enterprise module. To learn more about this VMOD, go to https://docs.varnish-software.com/varnish-enterprise/vmods/http/

Caching Authorized Requests

Web application performance needs are driving workloads to the network edge, in the hunt for high-quality, lower cost service at scale. This move is vital for latency-sensitive, bandwidth-intensive tasks, but requires infrastructure that meets performance, compute, scalability, and flexibility demands.  

In this webinar, discover how recent hardware and software advancements, including those from Varnish Software in partnership with Intel, are making edge delivery both cost-effective and efficient, with breakthroughs in throughput and energy savings. Our session delves into: 

- The critical shift of compute resources to the edge 
- Latest hardware innovations supporting high-performance edge computing 
- The crucial role of content delivery software 
- And the importance of scalability and flexibility in managing edge-based web services.  
 
Join us to gain a comprehensive understanding of edge computing's role in enhancing web performance, and its future potential in the technology landscape.

Edge Computing: Benefits for Web App Performance & Hardware Requirements

Varnish Logs with Varnishcsa: 2 Minute Tech Breakdown

Basic Authentication: 2 Minute Tech Breakdown

Load Balancing - Distributing Backend Requests: 2 Minute Tech Breakdown

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

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

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