Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: June 2001 Pages: 320
On the World Wide Web, speed and efficiency are vital. Users have little patience for slow web pages, while network administrators want to make the most of their available bandwidth. A properly designed web cache reduces network traffic and improves access times to popular web sites--a boon to network administrators and web users alike. Web Caching hands you all the technical information you need to design, deploy, and operate an effective web caching service. It starts with the basics of how web caching works, from the HTTP headers that govern cachability to cache validation and replacement algorithms. Topics covered in this book include: - Designing an effective cache solution
- Configuring web browsers to use a cache
- Setting up a collection of caches that can talk to each other
- Configuring an interception cache or proxy
- Monitoring and fine-tuning the performance of a cache
- Configuring web servers to cooperate with web caches
- Benchmarking cache products
The book also covers the important political aspects of web caching, including privacy, intellectual property, and security issues. Internet service providers, large corporations, or educational institutions--in short, any network that provides connectivity to a wide variety of users--can reap enormous benefit from running a well-tuned web caching service. Web Caching shows you how to do it right. |
- Title:
- Web Caching
- By:
- Duane Wessels
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
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- Print
- Safari Books Online
- Print:
- June 2001
- Pages:
- 320
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-56592-536-6
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- 1-56592-536-X
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Duane Wessels Duane Wessels became interested in web caching in 1994 as a topic for his master's thesis in telecommunications at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He worked with members of the Harvest research project to develop web caching software. After the departure of other members to industry jobs, he continued the software development under the name Squid. Another significant part of Duane's research with the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research has been the operation of 6 to 8 large caches throughout the U.S. These caches receive requests from hundreds of other caches, all connected in a "global cache mesh." View Duane Wessels's full profile page. |
Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Web Caching is a rock thrush. Rock thrushes belong to the order Passeriformes, the largest order of birds, containing 5,700 species, or over half of all living birds. Passerines, as birds of this order are called, are perching birds with four toes on each foot, three that point forward and one larger one that points backward. Rock thrushes belong to either the genus Monticola or the genus Petrocossyphus, such as Monticola solitarius, the blue rock thrush, and Petrocossyphus imerinus, the littoral rock thrush. Leanne Soylemez was the production editor and copyeditor for Web Caching. Matt Hutchinson was the proofreader, and Jeff Holcomb provided quality control. Brenda Miller wrote the index. Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font. Melanie Wang designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. The print version of this book was created by translating the DocBook XML markup of its source files into a set of gtroff macros using a filter developed at O'Reilly & Associates by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU troff s macros; Lenny Muellner adapted them to XML and implemented the book design. The GNU groff text formatter version 1.11.1 was used to generate PostScript output. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Constant Willison. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Leanne Soylemez. |
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