section.io Website Performance and Security Blog

Do you manage a website that experiences traffic spikes, whether occasional or frequent? If so, do you have a safety net in place to prevent user experience degradation and potential revenue loss?

The latest release of Varnish Cache (6.1) is now available on section.io, bringing about several new features and stability improvements, albeit minor in the words of Poul-Henning Kamp. section.io made this version of Varnish Cache available within our platform 2hrs after the source code release, further highlighting the speed and flexibility of the section.io Edge Platform.

When running your Magento website, one of the foundational decisions you will need to make is which hosting provider to choose. Your web host, or web hosting provider, will supply the technologies and services necessary for your Magento site to be viewed online. How your Magento application code, files and data are hosted is critical to your website’s performance and availability. Website speed matters more to many customers than most other website features, so choosing the right host is critical to avoid user abandonment and loss of revenue.

A Comparison Between PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS What do the terms PaaS, SaaS and IaaS mean, and how do you choose between them? All three are different types of cloud service, offering infrastructure and resources-on-demand as a service. Each offers a fundamentally different approach to the management of IT resources.

CDNs - An Early Evolution of Edge Compute The financial and business logic of moving compute to the edge is a powerful incentive. Gartner predicts that by 2022, 50% of computing will be happening at the edge. Currently, around 10% of enterprise-data is created and processed outside a traditional data center or centralized cloud. Santhosh Rao, principal research analyst at Gartner, noted, “Organizations that have embarked on a digital business journey have realized that a more decentralized approach is required to address digital business infrastructure requirements.”

What is Caching Stale-While-Revalidate or Extending Grace? Caching makes pages load more quickly by drawing on a previous copy of a response instead of re-fetching it over the network. section.io offers developers total control over their Varnish Cache configuration, enabling you to determine the features you need to maximize web speed by caching static and dynamic content, including full HTML documents.

Today is my first day as Marketing Director at section.io, and I’m eager for the opportunities ahead! What drew me to this company is the “for engineers, by engineers” mindset that carries through every vein of the organization. In all of my conversations with the team here, it’s glaringly apparent that our clients - software engineers - are at the center of everything we do. From product development to client success, section.io is on a mission to make work easier for engineers.

Yesterday was my first day at section.io, and I am looking forward to many more. I have worked as a lead software developer and architect for the past 26 years across several industries - most recently at F5 Networks on their cloud enablement effort for their BIG-IP product. I have worked at companies both large and small, but certainly prefer working at smaller companies on a closely-knit team. Once I learned more about section.io I knew right away that I wanted to be a part of their team and help the platform reach its full potential.

Users of the platform occasionally ask: “Why is the time to first byte (TTFB) so large even though Varnish Cache indicates it is a cache hit?” In this post, we will take a moment to address this niggling question.

New Study from Eggplant on Why Web Speed Matters A new global study from website optimization company Eggplant found that just under three quarters (73%) of consumers will move to a rival site if the website they are on is too slow to load. Eggplant polled 3,200 people within the US and UK about their attitudes towards website speed and performance. They found that website speed is important to a significant majority of people in both countries: 85% of Americans said it was important to them and 88% of Brits said the same.