Is anyone from Heroku around that might know how their setup works?
On Oct 2, 8:42 pm, Chris Hanks <christopher.m.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm wondering about Heroku's use of Varnish. Suppose I have a page > that is expensive to produce (lots of database queries) but can be > cached in Varnish. Right after Varnish's copy expires, if it's very > popular, I might have a dozen people accessing it simultaneously > before the newly created version can be stashed in Varnish. > > So, based on a thread I found (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ > varnish/misc/14750) it looks like Varnish is smart enough by default > to only send that expensive request to my backend once, and serve up > the response to all the people waiting for it (to prevent a dogpiling > effect). But I know that Heroku has its own configuration for Varnish > (with lots of servers in a hash ring), and I was wondering whether > it's still set up to do this. > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
