Announcing Our v3 API Stack: Faster Data Using Varnish and Node.js

At Factual we’re pretty obsessed with data.  In particular we love building APIs that let you use data in new and interesting ways.  That was the motivation behind launching our two newest APIs, Resolve and Crosswalk. Another thing we’re obsessed with is performance, which is why we’re excited to announce the release of our re-engineered [...]

A Practical Guide to Varnish

Why Varnish Matters… What is Varnish? Varnish is an open source, high performance http accelerator that sits in front of a web stack and caches pages.  This caching layer is very configurable and can be used for both static and dynamic content. One great thing about Varnish is that it can improve the performance of [...]