Re: Servlet caching strategies?
On 22-09-2010 09:11, Tom Anderson wrote:
Agreed. To repeat what Arne said with slightly different emphasis, i
think pages should be cached - i think it's vastly preferable to
cacheing data further back, because it shortcuts page generation - and i
think the place to do it is in a reverse proxy sitting in front of your
app servers. As Arne said, something like Denmark's finest software
product, Varnish:
http://www.varnish-cache.org/
Varnish was built from the ground up (by a Dane, Arne!) to be fast at
serving cached pages. It can pump pages out vastly faster than any app
server, using runtime resources very efficiently in doing so.
I know Varnish is maintained by PHK.
There are a couple of other Danes that have contributed to software
over the years (even though they all seem to migrate to other
countries):
Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#)
Bjarne Stroustrup (C++)
Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP)
David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails)
But i don't think you need to pregenerate per se to fill the cache.
Rather, you spider the site, via the cache, thus causing it to be
filled. If you can produce a list of URLs for every page on your site,
wget running on a box out on the net will do the job nicely.
I would not bother preloading. Just cache them at first real
request.
Arne
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