OpenGeo’s Arne Kepp was interviewed by Directions Magazine regarding the recent release of GeoWebCache 1.0 .
This article is a fine, layperson’s introduction to the features and benefits of GeoWebCache, and we highly recommend giving it read.

GeoWebCache is a WMS tile-caching solution written in Java, and is a core component of the OpenGeo Stack, although it can operate against any compliant Web Map Service (WMS) implementation. Directions Magazine “publishes weekly newsletters about geographic information systems, global positioning systems, desktop mapping, cartography, computer-aided design, remote sensing, web services, and more.”