This is an introduction to setting up and running TYPO3 with Varnish. See the amazing perfomance improvements and learn how to setup moc_varnish, a TYPO3 extension that automatically controls the Varnish cache according to TYPO3's caching rules.

1. Super performing
websites with
TYPO3 and
Varnish
Christian Jul Jensen
T3CON11 San Francisco

2. There is more to
life than just
increasing its
speed
Mahatma Ghandi

3. Hello my name is ...
Christian Jul Jensen
but you might know me as
Julle

4. A few concepts
• Web caching
• Browser cache
• Application caching
• Transparent caches
• Reverse proxies
• Measuring speed
• right tools for right tasks
• Our goal today: simple benchmarking

5. TYPO3 Caching
• Knowledge of content
• Page cache
• INT-scripts

6. You are doing it
wrong! Poul-Henning Kamp
“The majority of you are doing that wrong. Not just wrong as in not
perfect, but wrong as in wasting half, or more, of your performance.

7. Varnish
r.v. var·nished, var·nish·ing, var·nish·es
1. To cover with varnish.
2. To give a smooth and glossy finish to.
3. To give a deceptively attractive appearance to; gloss over.

8. Make websites fly
• Web Application Accelerator
• Initiated 2005
• Version 1.0 sep 2006
• Current version 2.1
• 3.0 released on June 16

9. Basic setup
• POSIX (FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris)
• Packages or source
• VCL

10. Let’s play!

11. Challenges

12. MOC Varnish
Varnish support in TYPO3
by Jan-Erik Revsbech

13. Installing
• Fetch from TER
• Enable
• Use provided VCL

14. Content awareness
• Hooks into TYPO3 cache
• Triggers Varnish purging on cache invalidation
• Supports force-reload

15. Dynamic content
• Edge-Side Includes (ESI)
• Combine smaller parts of websites
• MOC Varnish does this automatically
• Configuration options
• plugin.tx_mysweetplugin_pi1.max-age = <seconds>

16. More playing!

17. Other good stuff
• Load balancing
• Combining different backends with ESI

18. Questions?

19. Thanks
email me: julle@typo3.org
follow me: @christianjul