Taking Laravel to the edge with HTTP caching & Varnish
summary
Varnish proves it can sit in front of Laravel and cut work by serving cached responses at 500 Gbps and handling 100k requests/sec on a single box; it honors HTTP cache headers, supports stale-while-revalidate 300 (grace), and creates variations with Vary so language and encoding aren’t poisoned. Practical fixes: strip unnecessary cookies or mark routes public, emit ETags and short‑circuit with middleware so unchanged pages return 304 early, and assemble dynamic bits using ESI via a custom Blade directive and surrogate-control headers.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:17Varnish and web performance
- 5:45How Varnish works
- 7:28HTTP caching headers
- 12:02Caching Laravel responses
- 15:12Partial page caching with ESI
- 19:25Cache objects and language variations
- 21:51Advanced VCL and middleware
- 23:15Beyond web acceleration
- 24:50Q&A
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