Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun

Post by Igal_Zeifman » Wed, Jul 04, 2012, 11:28 AM UTC

mmaunder wrote: post #39

Exec summary: This is not caching. It is reduced latency for your visitors by removing connection setup over a large geographical distance. It also reduces the latency your web server has to deal with to effectively zero, but you can do that with Nginx. It also will reduce your bandwidth consumption from your providers perspective to a fraction of what it was. I think describing this as caching hides the real benefit…