Case Study: Intersport achieves high performance, resilience, and granular cache management with Varnish Software

Intersport relies on Varnish for performance, resilience, and granular cache management abilities

Intersport, a global sporting goods retailer with a growing France/Belgium e-commerce operation and about 630 physical stores, faced rapidly increasing web traffic (peaking at millions of visitors in days during 2020) after bringing technical operations in-house. The new digital team needed secure, high-performance content delivery, more agile and granular cache management to handle complex e-commerce caching, and an initial defense against bot and DDoS traffic.

They implemented Varnish Enterprise—already integrated with their hosting partner—using Varnish Configuration Language for fine-grained cache control and as a first line of defense against invalid traffic. The result was improved resilience and the ability to absorb traffic spikes, faster page loads and better user experience, and hands-on cache flexibility managed by their internal DevOps team, backed by responsive Varnish support.

Intersport

Michael Alimi

CTO