“Varnish your Magento store, make it fly! – Maximise your Magento performance with Varnish reverse proxy cache”

In this technical presentation we will cover the use of Varnish reverse proxy cache to get the ultimate speed from your Magento store.

We will look at the setup required to use Varnish to cache Magento pages and also explore some of the advanced features provided by Varnish, such as load balancing and ESI (Edge Side Includes). Based on benchmarked figures, we will show how Varnish can allow you to serve millions of hits an hour from a very small cluster of servers. Showing how Magento is suitable for hosting even the biggest and most traffic heavy stores currently online.

Vita

Alistair is Technical Team Lead at Ibuildings UK and has been developing software with PHP and other technologies since 2000. Alistair has helped many enterprise clients from the UK and Europe realise complex software solutions. As an advocate of Open Source Software Alistair has contributed to a number of projects, more recently Magento Ecommerce Platform. Alistair has a keen interest in development processes and using additional technology to support PHP development. In his spare time you will find Alistair tinkering with new technology, tweeting @alistairstead and blogging at www.designdisclosure.com.

• Technical Team Lead @ Ibuildings UK
• Lead Developer for MageTool, MageTest
• Contributor to Magento
• Zend Certified Engineer
• +11 Years commercial experience developing in PHP and other technologies