Years ago I was involved with some high performance delivery of a bunch of newspapers, and we used Squid[1] quite well. One nice thing you could do as well (but it's probably a bit hacky and old school these days) was to "open up" only parts of the web page to be dynamic while the rest was cached (or have different cache rules for different page components)[2]. With some legacy apps (like some CMS') this can hugely improve performance while not sacrificing the dynamic and "fresh looking" parts of the website.
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Years ago I was involved with some high performance delivery of a bunch of newspapers, and we used Squid[1] quite well. One nice thing you could do as well (but it's probably a bit hacky and old school these days) was to "open up" only parts of the web page to be dynamic while the rest was cached (or have different cache rules for different page components)[2]. With some legacy apps (like some CMS') this can hugely improve performance while not sacrificing the dynamic and "fresh looking" parts of the website.
[1] http://www.squid-cache.org/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Side_Includes