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How a TYPO3 extension for Varnish integration was born from a flash of inspiration.

In 2013, my former employer snowflake and Redpill Linpro, the company behind Varnish at the time, agreed to work together. Part of this contract was that I was allowed to attend a Varnish course in Oslo with two colleagues, in order to give courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as a certified Varnish trainer afterwards.

Not only the social program remained in my good memory, but also in the course we could learn a lot of new things, although we had already actively used Varnish before. Besides the successful certification of all participants, the idea for the TYPO3 Varnish Extension can be called a great achievement of these 3 days.
TYPO3 and Varnish

Up to this point a TYPO3 extension for Varnish already existed. The process of this extension was that when changing a page in the TYPO3 backend, all URLs belonging to this page were collected and then sent individually to Varnish for deletion. This was not very practical