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Reverse Proxy Performance 鈥� Varnish vs. Squid (Part 2)

In part one of this series I tested the raw throughput performance of Varnish and Squid. My results are consistent with all the blogs and comments floating around the blogosphere 鈥� Varnish blows away Squid.

Unfortunately, the first series of tests were somewhat uninformative. Since they only tested the raw performance of serving cached… »

Reverse Proxy Performance 鈥� Varnish vs. Squid (Part 1)

Typical web applications require dozens of SQL queries to generate a single page. When your application is serving over 1,000,000 pages per day, you quickly realize that the performance bottleneck is your database. The typical answer to slow database queries is 鈥渏ust use memcached!鈥� Memcached and other data caches can only take… »

Varnish Cache – Servidor de Proxy Reverso com Cacheamento

O Squid 茅 sem d煤vida um dos mais poderosos e completos sistemas de caching proxy do mercado. Para nossa sorte, 茅 livre e conhecido por funcionar muito bem no FreeBSD. O Squid 茅 utilizado frequentemente como servidor de procura莽茫o e cacheamento de dados servindo uma rede ou algumas esta莽玫es, para acesso 脿 grande… »