Deserialized » Blog Archive » Reverse Proxy Performance – Varnish vs. Squid (Part 1)Typical web applications require dozens of SQL queries to generate a single page. When your application is serving over 1,000,000 pages per day, you quickly realize that the performance bottleneck is your database. The typical answer to slow database queries is “just use memcached!” Memcached and other data caches can only take you so far. This is where reverse proxies come in. There are a ha
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