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Section vs Varnish: What are the differences?
Section: Run compute workloads on a distributed edge. Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge; Varnish: High-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.
Section and Varnish belong to "Web Cache" category of the tech stack.
"Realtime stats" is the top reason why over 9 developers like Section, while over 99 developers mention "High-performance" as the leading cause for choosing Varnish.
Varnish is an open source tool with 907 GitHub stars and 216 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Varnish's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Section
- Makes the hard parts of varnish easy10
- Realtime stats10
- No more hair pulling configuring caching8
- Git support8
- Easy setup7
- Qa testing6
- Test Varnish Settings in Dev & Prod5
- Kibana logs4
- Graphite out of the box3
- Professional, rock solid platform, easy to user2
Pros of Varnish
- High-performance104
- Very Fast67
- Very Stable57
- Very Robust44
- HTTP reverse proxy37
- Open Source21
- Web application accelerator18
- Easy to config11
- Widely Used5
- Great community4
- Essential software for HTTP2
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