SearchBy now, you should have a solid idea of what Varnish is, and how it is an important tool in the modern-day web stack.
Delivering content at scale proves to be a lot more challenging than anticipated.
We cannot ignore the importance of speed, scalability, and stability of web platforms. Without a well-thought-out content delivery strategy, you’ll suffer from a lot more downtime, or you’ll have to spend a lot more money on sufficient infrastructure.
Varnish does more than just website and API acceleration: Varnish is content delivery software. With Varnish you can build your own CDN and tailor it to your exact needs.
Not only can this CDN cache images, scripts and documents of all kinds. It is exceptionally well-suited to accelerate OTT video streaming platforms. This is a significant use case, as more than 80% of the internet’s bandwidth is used to stream video.
In the next chapter we will focus specifically on Varnish version 6, what has changed, how it is supported, and where to get it.