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Open Source Alternatives to Varnish

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What is Varnish?

Varnish is a web application accelerator (HTTP reverse proxy) designed for content-heavy dynamic websites, focusing on caching to improve performance.. There are currently 2 open-source alternatives to Varnish, with a combined total of 1.4k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Go.

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souin
souindarkweak/souin

An RFC-compliant HTTP cache system that works as a plugin or standalone reverse-proxy for Apache, Nginx, Traefik, Caddy, and many Go frameworks.

99083Go
24 days ago
ledge
ledgepintsized/ledge

An RFC-compliant, ESI-capable HTTP cache for Nginx/OpenResty backed by Redis, designed as a fast alternative to Squid/Varnish.

45857Lua
5 years ago
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