Archive for September, 2008

Varnish HTTP accelerator nears 2.0 release

I’ve long been an advocate of origin HTTP caching and acceleration for large websites, something I alluded to in the post Performance Tuning and Optimization of High-Traffic Websites, which I wrote almost eleven months ago. In the early, heady days of the World Wide Web, many vendors like CacheFlow (later BlueCoat) and Nortel made HTTP [...]

CBC Radio Two: now in streaming MP3

Those of you who have been following the CBC Radio Two revitalization have noticed that, buried amid all the controversy about juggling classical music so that it only appears between 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., CBC launched four web-only streams on Monday: Classical, Jazz, Canadian Songwriters, and Canadian Classical. These are available twenty-four hours a [...]

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