Excellent job... I think a second article in which you give specific examples of how Context-aware caching would work for a simple application would be helpful.

Excellent job... I think a second article in which you give specific examples of how Context-aware caching would work for a simple application would be helpful. Maybe a group chat service would be a great example. Also, adding HTTP requests within Varnish allows for a much more useful cache invalidation scheme... for example, incoming requests could have an content_token and timestamp. An internal HTTP service that records whether a given piece of content has expired (through user action rather than TTL) could then be checked before serving up a cached copy.