performance

Aug 26, 2020//6 min read

Cache purging with Ghost and Cloudflare Workers

As I have moved my blog platform over to Ghost, I've realised that there will be other parts of my technical ecosystem that will keep me busy tinkering. One such part of that is how to cache every pag

May 21, 2014//3 min read

Why Pound is awesome in front of Varnish

We all know Varnish is awesome. I went as far as presenting a topic on Varnish then writing about it. This is a known fact. However, what happens to all that caching goodness when you want to run you

Sep 17, 2013//6 min read

Explaining Varnish for Beginners

A short time ago I published a presentation I gave at DrupalACT [http://drupalact.org.au/] entitled 'Varnish for Beginners [/post/varnish-beginners]'. Whilst the presentation itself went down well and

Jun 13, 2013//1 min read

Varnish for beginners

My first experience with Varnish [https://www.varnish-cache.org/] was whilst I worked at Agileware [http://agileware.com.au/] and was required to create a Pressflow [http://pressflow.org/] Drupal 6 s

Oct 30, 2012//4 min read

Staggering cron to distribute maintenance tasks

Whilst performance tuning a Drupal site recently, I read an article detailing reasons why cron is bad; How Drupal's cron is killing you in your sleep [http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/how-drupals-cron-ki