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Abstract for a talk titled 'Accelerate your web app with a layer of Varnish'
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| Can your web app quickly scale to handle massive fluctuations in traffic? How about stay up during a DDOS attack? Can it do either of these while maintaining a lightning fast response time and without breaking the bank? The Varnish web application accelerator is a tool that can help you to achieve all of these things. This talk will introduce what Varnish is and when it's the right tool for the job. We'll examine how you can install and configure it to sit in front of any HTTP server to act as a reverse proxy, serving cached content at very high speeds. We'll then examine the Varnish configuration language and how you can use it fine tune every aspect of Varnish's performance as well as Varnish's support for edge side includes, allowing you to cache different content on the same page for varying amounts of time. We'll finish with a quick rundown of the tools Varnish provides to monitor and further tweak its configuration. By the end of this talk you should have the knowledge needed to get started with Varnish, allowing your app to do more while using fewer resources. |
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Except for the spacing, and removing " to act as a reverse proxy" I didn't change anything — this is a great abstract.
Your intro is inclusive and inviting, your intentions are clear and expectations are well set.
The only reason I removed " to act as a reverse proxy" was because it adds unnecessary technical complexity to the abstract, and might be a barrier for entry, when you and I both know it's nothing complicated.