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Re:What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error m... by res0nat0r on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:03PM (#27443776)
Fastly is indeed powered by a lot of Varnish magic. My company used(s) them for the CDN for some of our large website frontends, and they have engineers which will help generate the insanely convoluted and large VCL templates which can be setup in your account and will handle all of the magic routing / caching / much more complex things you need for your origin.
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Re:What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error m... by gonzo41 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:12PM (#27443827)
Yeah I've used varnish before. I like it a lot, but I do think coloring inside the lines as much as possible is probably the safest thing. Some of the VMOD's and more exciting things you can do with varnish become really trick to manage.
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