9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Varnish Cache first-hand: 1 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Varnish needs memory, but without Varnish we could run this setup on a box a fraction of the size.”
mixed · production · todsul · 2011-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use varnish because we run apache, and I'm so infatuated with it that I recommend it to everyone.”
endorse · production · StavrosK · 2010-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we usually deploy Varnish in front of the web servers to handle traffic.”
neutral · production · thatwasunusual · 2021-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've spent endless hours trying to identify leaks before we finally tried a few alternative allocators.”
neutral · production · perbu · 2021-02-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“run `cap staging genesis:provision` and `cap production genesis:provision` to install the LAMP + Varnish stack”
neutral · production · ericclemmons · 2013-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“use Varnish as a caching proxy. That's how we started, and after a year we hit 200+ instances”
neutral · production · 1 yr · byoung2 · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have been using it in production on our Varnish 3.0 servers for a couple weeks now and it's solid.”
neutral · production · jasonmoo · 2012-09-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we use the cache invalidation logic to tell varnish what needs to be refreshed.”
neutral · production · mikeytown2 · 2010-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Shopify runs varnish (we run varnish on Twitter search) - are speedups coming out of varnish or ngnix for you?”
neutral · production · netik · 2010-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?