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I’ve heard good things about varnish and believe I used it for a few things back in the day. Squid was also good when I used it in the kid 2000s (not sure where it’s today) and I think I heard that Akamai was originally just Squid on NetBSD or something like that!! Can anyone confirm or deny?

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Fastly is basically a varnish-based CDN. They even let you provide VCL code to program it.

They forked Varnish (around 2.0, judging by the VCL syntax) quite early and I suspect there isn't much left of the original codebase.

I'm very impressed how they managed to retrofit multitenancy.

Last I heard they were moving away from Varnish (but still supporting VCL for customers that were using it)

And log delivery using smtp (attaching files) from the nodes at the border to the central servers

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