Re: suggestions for perl as web development language [EXT]

Ours is a REST based service so every request has business logic and an
apache+mod_perl instance actually has a better segregation of the
webserver and Perl code - we don't worry about handling the HTTP request
and managing children. We trust Apache will do the right thing and if
something breaks we have a large community of people who can help. All we
worry about is our business logic which well no one can help if we don't
know what we have coded :)

Would you like to share a Perl based webserver which can be guaranteed to
be comparable to apache in terms of reliability and stability ?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:48 PM Mark Blackman <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 4 Aug 2020, at 21:41, Mithun Bhattacharya <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I am genuinely curious what are these other "well known" means ?
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Mark Blackman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > On 4 Aug 2020, at 17:58, Mithun Bhattacharya <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > mod_perl does have value because it does a more efficient utilization
>> of resources - this is important when fast response time and scalability is
>> important. The complexity is a known problem but it is not a mystery box
>> either - there is enough documentation which explains what has to happen
>> and what could have gone wrong.
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>> mod_perl’s relative efficiency can be achieved by other well-known means.
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> That would depend on what you mean by  "efficient utilisation of
> resources”.  You can get the same general effect, more simply, by running a
> high-performing pre-forking Perl web application server and a web server
> with a simple configuration in front of it ,instead of a complicated
> Apache+mod_perl installation.
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> That also buys you a nice separation of concerns, the web server handles
> all the complicated host or path rewrites and access control and the Perl
> app focuses on responding to the, now-sanitised, fully normalized, HTTP
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