Web Caching

Acknowledgments

I am extremely lucky to have been put in the position to write this book. There are so many people who have helped me along the way. First, I want to thank Dr. Jon Sauer and Dr. Ken Klingenstein at the University of Colorado for supporting my graduate work in this field. Huge thanks to Michael Schwartz, Peter Danzig, and other members of the Harvest project for the most enjoyable job I’ll probably ever have. I don’t think I can ever thank k claffy and Hans-Werner Braun of NLANR enough for taking me in and allowing me to work on the IRCache project. I am also in karma-debt to all of my CAIDA friends (Tracie, Amy, Rochell, Jenniffer, Jambi) for taking care of business in San Diego so I could stay in Boulder. Thanks to Marla Meehl and the National Center for Atmospheric Research for a place to sit and an OC-3 connection.

This book has benefited immensely from the attentive eyes of the folks who reviewed the manuscript: Ittai Gilat (Microsoft), Lee Beaumont (Lucent), Jeff Boote (NCAR), Reuben Farrelley, and Valery Soloviev (Inktomi). Special thanks also to Andy Cervantes of The Privacy Foundation.

As usual, the folks at O’Reilly have done a fantastic job. Nat, Paula, Lenny, Erik: Let’s do it again sometime!

Since I’ve been working on web caching, I have been very fortunate to work with many wonderful people. I truly appreciate the support and friendship of Jay Adelson, Kostas Anagnostakis, Pei Cao, Glenn Chisholm, Ian Cooper, Steve Feldman, Henry Guillen, Martin Hamilton, Ted Hardie, Solom Heddaya, Ron Lee, Ulana Legedza, Carlos Maltzahn, John Martin, Ingrid Melve, Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Bill Woodcock, and Lixia Zhang.

Thanks to my family (Karen, John, Theresa, Roy) for their constant support and understanding. Despite the efforts of my good friends Ken, Scott, Bronwyn, Gennevive, and Brian, who tried to tie up all my free time, I finished anyway! My coworkers, Alex Rousskov and Matthew Weaver, are champs for putting up an endless barrage of questions, and for tolerating my odd working hours. A big thank you to everyone who writes free software, especially the FreeBSD hackers. But most of all, thanks to all the Squid users and developers out there!