Slow CI/CD pipelines delay builds, releases and deployments. A lot of time is wasted waiting for external dependencies like Docker images, Helm Charts, Linux packages, NPM packages, Maven packages, Go modules, Python libraries, and any other artifact that is required in the software development process. The registries that host these artifacts become a bottleneck. Besides performance and scalability concerns, organizations also struggle with cost, resilience and security risks when operating artifact registries. In this session, Thijs will show how to regain control over your software supply chain by caching your artifacts in Varnish and by using a Virtual Registry like Varnish Orca. Orca is a specially packaged version of Varnish that abstracts direct access to artifact registries. Orca accelerates access to artifacts by caching them as close to the consumers as possible, and uses its role as a “reverse caching HTTP proxy” to enforce security policies at request time, eliminate registry rate limits, protect pipelines against registry outages, and provide meaningful insights through an OTEL observability layer.
As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media. Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 380 presentations in 26 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style. As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP community. He has contributed to various communities for over 15 years both technically and as an organizer and facilitator. Prior to joining Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn spent 15 years in the web hosting industry, tackling web performance and scalability issues on a daily basis and evangelizing these topics. For more information about Thijs’ past & upcoming presentations, please visit https://feryn.eu/speaking.
