Varnish

So you recently launched your PHP application (read Magento) just to realize that it is really slow even though you have state of the art hardware, software and it is configured to kick ass. You decided to install varnish to help full page caching and your CDN, which it only has gzipped merged and minified assets, to serve content faster now your site seems to be flying but New Relic still reveals so many bottlenecks specially for the fillers you needed to keep some dynamic content rocking. ...

Sharing knowledge is always a good idea. Lately I have been doing lots of integration with Varnish and Magento with different clients and it will be interesting to find out if you have any ideas or suggestions (read improvements) to make it better and ultimately help the community even more: Setting up varnish in switch mode: In my home directory I always have a bash aliases (vim ~/.bash_aliases) file where I add the following iptable rules: ...