Hello Ben,

I just read you were about to talk to the Varnish specialist at Heroku.
I would really appreciate if you took the time to help me to find the
answer to those 2 unanswered questions about Varnish and caching :
http://groups.google.com/group/heroku/browse_thread/thread/8e39658d53c53b7c
http://groups.google.com/group/heroku/browse_thread/thread/fd23e886c24131b3

Thanks in advance for your help!
Thomas.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Ben Scofield <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not sure why this didn't come through earlier, but:
>
> I tried out a few experiments, and it looks like our setup doesn't
> interfere with this default behavior. I'm going to talk to someone
> with more intimate knowledge of our Varnish config to confirm that,
> but so far it looks promising.
>
> Ben
>
> On Oct 5, 12:00 pm, Chris Hanks <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is anyone from Heroku around that might know how their setup works?
>>
>> On Oct 2, 8:42 pm, Chris Hanks <[email protected]> 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!
>
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