We're all putting in lots of effort to 'make the web faster', and DevOps practitioners are especially interested in using tools to make their sites superfast. Nginx and Varnish are go-to performance tools to make your site fly, but with some cross-over in what they can do, and important capability differences in that cross-over zone, how can you get the best out of them?

This talk will look at using Nginx and Varnish together with SPDY in a 'SPDY sandwich' (Nginx » Varnish » Nginx) to reduce the latency of web pages, and to improve web security. With some overview of the technologies involved, their strengths and benefits, weakenesses and limitations, we'll focus on putting them all together and getting benchmarks for the potential performance paybacks.

The session will cover:

• Nginx, I got you (I feel good)
• Varnish - Bring it on … Bring it on
• Superbad, Superslick, SPDY - What, why, how?
• Get on the Good Foot - Everything in SSL/TLS, and encryption ciphers
• Get it together - the SPDY sandwich
• The Payback - testing it all

Barney Hanlon (@shrikeh) originally proposed the 'SPDY Sandwich'. This session is an in-depth look at set-up and configuration, with special attention given to performance benchmarks.

About the Speakers

Olli Erinko and Joe Baker are developers at WunderKraut, with experience in DevOps roles on large, high performance sites for the UK Ministry of Justice, Oxfam International, Uusi Suomi, Puheenvuoro and Tekla.

Wunderkraut is Europe's largest Drupal service provider, employs one of the largest Drupal development teams worldwide and delivers measurable client happiness and business value.