The document discusses using Varnish to cache images on EC2 instances to improve performance for a tofu image processing and delivery system. It describes challenges with using the default memory-only storage for Varnish and switching to a file-based persistent storage model. Using Varnish helped improve performance by caching images, reducing load on application servers and S3. Scaling out to multiple EC2 instances with Varnish and using an ELB provided further improvements and high availability.