How a Web Accelerator Accelerates Your Site
summary
Explains what a Web accelerator (reverse proxy / frontend) is and how it speeds up a website. Covers different types of accelerators, their capabilities and limitations, and compares the characteristics of various solutions in depth.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Web content acceleration
- 3:59Reverse proxy caching
- 5:24What can be cached
- 7:32Caching GET and POST
- 13:20Freshness and invalidation
- 19:02Cache locality and security
- 20:50Vary header and negotiation
- 23:43Buffering and streaming
- 25:27Cache storage approaches
- 27:59Volatile vs disk storage
- 30:13Cache keys and validation
- 31:40Cache control headers
- 32:49Varnish thread model
- 34:12Network stack and packets
- 35:41DDoS protection
- 38:54Accelerator features
- 40:13Q&A
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