Varnish Three Letter Acronyms

Very early in the project, we made a fortunate bargain on eBay, buying up a batch of 676 three letter acronyms, all starting with 'V'.

This page tells you what we use them for, if we remember to add them...

VBE

Varnish Back End -- Code for contacting backends (bin/varnishd/cache_backend.c)

VBP

Varnish Backend Polling -- Health checks of backends (bin/varnishd/cache_backend_poll.c)

VCA

Varnish Connection Acceptor -- The code that receives/accepts the TCP connections (bin/varnishd/cache_acceptor.c)

VCC

VCL to C Compiler -- The code that compiles VCL to C code. (lib/libvcl)

VCL

Varnish Configuration Language -- The domain-specific programming language used for configuring a varnishd.

VCT

Varnish CType(3) -- Character classification for RFC2616 and XML parsing.

VEV

Varnish EVent -- library functions to implement a simple event-dispatcher.

VGB

Varnish Governing Board -- May or may not exist. If you need to ask, you are not on it.

VGC

Varnish Generated Code -- Code generated by VCC from VCL

VIN

Varnish Instance Naming -- Resolution of -n arguments

VLU

Varnish Line Up -- library functions to collect stream of bytes into lines for processing. (lib/libvarnish/vlu.c)

VRE

Varnish Regular Expression -- library functions for regular expression based matching and substring replacement. (lib/libvarnish/vre.c)

VRT

Varnish Run Time -- functions called from compiled code. (bin/varnishd/cache_vrt.c)

VRY

VaRY -- Related to processing of Vary: HTTP headers. (bin/varnishd/cache_vary.c)

VSL

Varnish Shared memory Log -- The log written into the shared memory segment for varnish{log,ncsa,top,hist} to see.

VSB

Varnish string Buffer -- a copy of the FreeBSD "sbuf" library, for safe string handling.

VSS

Varnish Session Stuff -- library functions to wrap DNS/TCP (lib/libvarnish/vss.c)

VTC

Varnish Test Code -- a test-specification for the varnishtest program.

VTLA

Varnish Three Letter Acronym -- No rule without an exception.