Case Study: BurdaForward achieves faster page loads and high-performance content delivery with Varnish Software

BurdaForward uses Varnish for web application acceleration and high-performance content delivery

BurdaForward, a digital-first arm of Hubert Burda Media and operator of high-traffic sites like FOCUS Online, runs a lean operations team focused on stability and performance. Their core challenge was straightforward: accelerate web applications and content delivery, reduce page load and deployment times, and keep cached content fresh to maintain a fast user experience at scale.

To meet that need they adopted Varnish (open source and Varnish Enterprise) to accelerate web and API delivery, enable cache reuse and prewarming, and handle large datasets with an improved storage engine and dynamic backend features. The result was markedly faster, more resilient sites and higher-quality deployments—Varnish became a key contributor to performance improvements and continues to play an important role as BurdaForward moves into new cloud projects.

BurdaForward

Sebastian Binder

Head of Operations