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Run compute workloads on a distributed edge
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What is Section?

Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge.
Section is a tool in the Web Cache category of a tech stack.

Who uses Section?

Companies
4 companies reportedly use Section in their tech stacks, including Araclx, Squixa, and elbwalker.

Developers
49 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Section.

Section Integrations

GitHub, Docker, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and SourceTree are some of the popular tools that integrate with Section. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Section.
Pros of Section
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Makes the hard parts of varnish easy
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Realtime stats
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No more hair pulling configuring caching
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Git support
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Easy setup
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Qa testing
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Test Varnish Settings in Dev & Prod
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Kibana logs
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Graphite out of the box
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Professional, rock solid platform, easy to user

Section's Features

  • Varnish Cache
  • Nginx/Lua
  • SiteSpect
  • Cloudinary
  • Kraken
  • ModSecurity
  • Signal Sciences
  • ThreatX
  • ShieldSquare
  • PageSpeed
  • Virtual Waiting Room
  • Node JS
  • Real Time Metrics
  • Log Management
  • Real User Monitoring
  • Instant Global Deployments
  • Developer PoP
  • Instant Cache Purge
  • Managed SSL Certificates
  • Dynamic Content Caching
  • Static Asset Caching
  • HTML Streaming
  • Anonymous Page Caching
  • Image Optimization
  • Front-End Optimization
  • Mobile Optimization
  • Virtual Waiting Room
  • HTTP/2
  • Web Application Firewall
  • IP Blocking
  • SSL Certificates
  • DDoS Mitigation
  • Bad Bot Management
  • Load Balancing
  • Maintenance Pages
  • Anycast DNS Hosting

Section Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Section?
Varnish
Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.
Apache Traffic Server
It is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server.Improve your response time, while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, images, and web ser
Squid
Squid reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Nuster
nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.

Section's Followers
64 developers follow Section to keep up with related blogs and decisions.