Re: [squid-users] criticism against squid

On 29-Aug-07 My Secret NSA Wiretap Overheard john allspaw Saying :
> Varnish shows a lot of promise. I do believe that there's a good amount of
> trash talking in
> those comments, especially given that squid would for sure have been designed
> differently if
> it set out to be a fast accelerator, not a forward proxy with all of the
> bells and whistles.
>
> Flickr can't use Varnish in its current form, for example, because object
> eviction isn't yet a feature. :)
> Hence, we use squid. It's working just fine for us. So in that case, I'll
> take the "1980" design that works,
> versus the 2007 design that doesn't. :)
>
> -j

 It seems like their trash talking is to try to get people to switch and try to
garner more funding. Varnish is also not as user friendly as squid.

 Now.. if your from flickr.. and you use Squid.. Seems like a big company like
yours should be making some nice donations.. poke poke.. That would help squid
get updated :)

  Nicole

>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: howard chen <howachen@gmail.com>
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:23:09 AM
> Subject: [squid-users] criticism against squid
>
>
> hody,
>
> just found a new http accelerator, varnish, which criticize squid, e.g.
>
>
> Why bother with Varnish - why not use Squid?
>
> Varnish was written from the ground up to be a high performance
> caching reverse proxy. Squid is a forward proxy that can be configured
> as a reverse proxy. Besides - Squid is rather old and designed like
> computer programs where supposed to be designed in 1980. Please see
> ArchitectNotes for details.
>
>
> I am not familiar with the internal of squid in fact, anyone has any
> comments?
>
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