Varnish for Drupal developers

Most people who run a Drupal website at a decent scale have probably heard of Varnish: Varnish is a reverse cache proxy you put in front of Drupal to accelerate your website.

It comes with some VCL code that might seem confusing at first, there are some Drupal modules you need to install and configure in order to invalidate the cache. But how does it really work?

In this session I’m going to show you how to install & configure Varnish, how to configure the VCL and what the code means. We’ll also be looking at the Drupal side of things and how to control the caching behavior from Drupal.

We’re also going to talk about more advanced topics and some extra Varnish features that will take your Drupal caching to the next level.