https://bjornjohansen.com/tag/spdy/ Recent content in spdy on {bjørn:johansen} Hugo -- 0.118.2 en-US Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:50:20 +0000 https://bjornjohansen.com/enabling-spdy-nginx/ Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:50:20 +0000 urn:uuid:63636230-3464-5563-a661-656165636538 SPDY is this new, cool, fast protocol created by Google that &ldquo;replaces&rdquo; HTTP (the first draft of HTTP 2.0 is using SPDY as the working base). It is <a href="http://caniuse.com/spdy" title="Compatibility table for support of SPDY networking protocol in desktop and mobile browsers.">supported in all the major browsers</a> – yes, even Internet Explorer – with the exception of Apple&rsquo;s Safari. https://bjornjohansen.com/caching-varnish-or-nginx/ Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:37:57 +0000 urn:uuid:63636330-6461-5163-b365-333638366266 TL;DR: Varnish lacks support for SSL and SPDY. Nginx handles it just fine, and has very fast cache with either memcache or disk storage (ramdisk). Both can serve stale cache if your backend is down. But Nginx can not write to the memcache storage directly, it has to be done by the application. Also, Nginx can not purge the cache itself, without you compiling your own package.