Summary

In this chapter, we looked at why Caching and Compression are beneficial, how these features behave when enabled on the NetScaler, what the traffic flows look like, what the dos and don'ts are and how to approach troubleshooting these features.

If you can find the time, also give RFC 2616 a read, it is an excellent resource not just for this chapter but for understanding the many interesting intricacies of the HTTP protocol.

Any deployments that use HTTP based VIPs should be using Caching and Compression because they have the potential to offer a huge performance benefit and greatly reduced server load when processing traffic at volume.