Web Caches

Pizza, beer, and mingling.

"Apache Traffic Server"
Bryan Call (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bryan-call/0/a31/20b), ATS Commiter / Sr. Principal Engineer System R&D, Yahoo!
Leif Hedstrom (http://www.linkedin.com/in/zwoop), ATS Commiter / Chief Architect Cloud Services, Cisco

"Mysteries of a CDN Explained"
Artur Bergman (http://www.linkedin.com/in/crucially), CEO, Fastly

Web caches are one of the tools we use to increase our scale. Varnish (https://www.varnish-cache.org/) and Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) seem to be among the most popular, but there are also more exotic solutions like Traffic Server (http://trafficserver.apache.org/).

Some web caches have features beyond simple caching, such as Squid's support for ICP, or its use as a means to cache open connections between data centers. Sometimes, web servers have basic caching that is enough.

For our October event, I'd like to hear about web caching software. Are you using one or more of the above? Why did you pick the system you use? Can you compare it to the others for performance, capacity, or some other measure? Are you using your cache for something beyond just basic caching? Can you dazzle us with HTTP caching header esoterica we should all know?

I'm looking for 2-4 20-25 minute talks. If you can give a talk, please contact me, Chris Westin, through meetup.

As well as the evening's theme talks, we can fit in 2-3 five minute lightning talks at the beginning of the evening; any topic that would be interesting to the #lspe audience is welcome. If you're interested in giving a lightning talk, contact me, Chris Westin, through meetup.