Will You Use Google’s New Page Speed Service?
Google has released a Page Speed Service which combines proxy servers, CDNs and web page optimizers to make websites 25-60% faster. Craig discusses the pros and cons. Continue reading %Will You Use...
View ArticleDebugging Varnish
At 99designs we heavily (ab)use Varnish to make our app super fast, but also to do common, simple tasks without having to invoke our heavy-by-contrast PHP stack. As a result, our Varnish config is...
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How to Solve Caching Conundrums
The web wouldn't operate without caching. Between you and the server, there is a browser and any number of proxy servers which cache responses. Much of this is handled transparently by applications...
View ArticlePreparing for ECMAScript 6: Proxies
In computing terms, a proxy sits between you and the thing you are communicating with. The term is most often applied to a proxy server -- a device between the web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari,...
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RESTful Remote Object Proxies with ProxyManager
The proxy pattern is another cool design pattern in software development. A proxy is a class working as an interface to another class or web service. For the sake of simplicity, we'll refer to proxied...
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