Re: suggestions for perl as web development language [EXT]
Mark Blackman <[email protected]>
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> On 4 Aug 2020, at 21:55, Mithun Bhattacharya <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > >> On 4 Aug 2020, at 21:41, Mithun Bhattacharya <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I am genuinely curious what are these other "well known" means ? >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Mark Blackman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> > On 4 Aug 2020, at 17:58, Mithun Bhattacharya <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > 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. >> >> mod_perl’s relative efficiency can be achieved by other well-known means. > > 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. > > 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 requests. > > - Mark You would still have something like Apache or Nginx handling the direct connection to the client and after all clean-up/rewrite/ACL logic is applied, then the HTTP request is passed onto something like https://metacpan.org/pod/Starman <https://metacpan.org/pod/Starman> - Mark