VTLA - 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 & when we remember to add them…
- VAV
- Varnish Arg Vector – Argv parsing. 
- 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) 
- VCF
- Varnish CatFlap 
- 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. 
- VDD
- Varnish (Core) Developer Day – Quarterly invite-only meeting strictly for Varnish core (C) developers, packagers and VMOD hackers. 
- VENC
- Varnish ENCoding – base64 functions 
- VEND
- Varnish ENDianess – functions to marshall data in specified endianess 
- 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) 
- VPI
- VCC Private Interface – functions in varnishd which only VCC is allowed to call. 
- 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. 
- VSC
- Varnish Statistics Counter – counters for various stats, exposed via varnishapi. 
- 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. 
- VTE
- Varnish Turbo Encabulator 
- VTLA
- Varnish Three Letter Acronym – No rule without an exception. 
- VUG
- Varnish User Group meeting – Half-yearly event where the users and developers of Varnish Cache gather to share experiences and plan future development. 
- VWx
- Varnish Waiter ‘x’ – A code module to monitor idle sessions. 
- VWE
- Varnish Waiter Epoll – epoll(2) (linux) based waiter module. 
- VWK
- Varnish Waiter Kqueue – kqueue(2) (freebsd) based waiter module. 
- VWP
- Varnish Waiter Poll – poll(2) based waiter module. 
- VWS
- Varnish Waiter Solaris – Solaris ports(2) based waiter module. 
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