Drupal Core Caching ↔ Varnish Reverse Proxy: When Is the First Miss the Bottleneck?
Goal Determine whether the first request after a cache miss is the true performance bottleneck when Drupal core caching is paired with an external reverse proxy such as Varnish. Constraints Drupal 9/10 generate cacheability metadata (tags, contexts, max‑age) that both the internal Dynamic Page Cache and Varnish interpret. The first miss triggers a full boots