Improve the real or perceived speed of the site, or monitor performance metrics.
Drupal's CSS & JS aggregation can cause database deadlock in the variable table under heavy load, this will bring your site to its knees.
This module provides functionality for serving pages for authenticated users from Varnish cache.
This module extends the Varnish module to purge caches of multiple configured base urls.
Provides an alternative CSRF protection mechanism for Drupal 7 forms, that depends on JavaScript but allows form HTML to be cached in reverse proxies or CDNs.