Why developers like Varnish

What is Varnish?

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.

Varnish is a tool in the Web Cache category of a tech stack.

Varnish is an open source tool with 907 GitHub stars and 211 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Varnish's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Varnish?

Companies

9179 companies reportedly use Varnish in their tech stacks, including Pinterest, Twitch, and 9GAG.

Twitch

9GAG

MIT

GO-JEK

Hepsiburada ...

Hootsuite

thoughtbot

HotelTonight ...

Developers

1100 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Varnish.

SaaS

Wallhaven

Yosilo.se

tribe

Packages Used ...

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Alex Topalov ...

FictFact

Justin Hourigan ...

Varnish Integrations

Datadog, Section, Blackfire.io, SignalFx, and Server Density are some of the popular tools that integrate with Varnish. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Varnish.

Datadog

Section

Blackfire.io ...

SignalFx

Server Density ...

Netuitive

Why developers like Varnish?

Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Varnish

Top Reasons

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Web application accelerator

Easy to config

Widely Used

Great community

Essential software for HTTP

Private Decisions at about Varnish

Private to your company

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by members of with Varnish in their tech stack.

Jovi Kao

a few seconds ago | 1 upvotes · 1 views

Varnish

Content cache server Varnish

Thomas Zickell

CEO at Blueprint Marketing · a few seconds ago | 1 upvotes · 0 views

Varnish

it makes it very fast Varnish

Andrei Kun

Senior Software Engineer at Yonder · a few seconds ago | 1 upvotes · 0 views

Varnish

As Web Cache on top of nginx Varnish

Public Decisions about Varnish

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Varnish in their tech stack.

Tom Klein

CEO at Gentlent · Jun 6, 2019 | 9 upvotes · 135.4K views

Gentlent

Git

GitHub

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

HAProxy

Varnish

npm

Visual Studio Code

We're using Git through GitHub for public repositories and GitLab for our private repositories due to its easy to use features. Docker and Kubernetes are a must have for our highly scalable infrastructure complimented by HAProxy with Varnish in front of it. We are using a lot of npm and Visual Studio Code in our development sessions.

StackShare Editors

Aug 3, 2011 | 6 upvotes · 165.4K views

Node.js

Python

MySQL

Memcached

nginx

RabbitMQ

Redis

Django

Tornado

Varnish

HAProxy

Around the time of their Series A, Pinterest’s stack included Python and Django, with Tornado and Node.js as web servers. Memcached / Membase and Redis handled caching, with RabbitMQ handling queueing. Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish managed static-delivery and load-balancing, with persistent data storage handled by MySQL.

What is the technology stack behind Pinterest? - Quora

Scott Prue

at Kyper · Dec 21, 2017 | 1 upvotes · 7.3K views

Pruvit

Varnish

Used as part of site hosting (Firebase HTTP Hosting manages implementation) Varnish

Poogles

Feb 14, 2015 | 1 upvotes · 7.3K views

The Independent

Varnish

Varnish sits as a secondary cache layer behind Akamai. Two servers operate in a Primary/Secondary configuration with failover managed by HAProxy. Requests peak at around 10k/s. Varnish

Simone Marcato

Partner & CTO at Hevelop · a year ago | 1 upvotes · 7.3K views

Hevelop

Varnish

Varnish is the http cache proxy we use to achieve maximum performance on high traffic e-commerce. Varnish

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Varnish Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Varnish?

nginx

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

Redis

Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

HAProxy

HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Apache Traffic Server

It is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server.Improve your response time, while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, images, and web ser

Squid

Squid reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

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