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

Haha my service is meant to be a blackbox - of course it talks to three
different REST services :)

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:05 PM Ruben Safir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:59:01PM -0500, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> > The question is move off to what ? I don't see alternatives being shared
> > which blows an apache+mod_perl setup out of the water.
> >
>
>
> Maybe JBoss
>
> really there is none.  mod_perl turns apache into an application server,
> and there is not much like it, where it can get you right into the heart
> of the Apache response cycle.
>
> If you want something that talks to 3 jsom servers and exposes your data
> all over the net, you can do this with mod_perl, but it is not something
> that would interest most mod_perl coders.
>
>
> > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:56 PM Ruben Safir <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:48:48PM +0100, Mark Blackman wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On 4 Aug 2020, at 21:41, Mithun Bhattacharya <[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.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Not really and the separtion is not a concern, it is an asset, the most
> > > important one.
> > >
> > > To get faster, you would need to move off apache.
> > >
> > >
> > > > - Mark
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> --
> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com
>
> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
> http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> http://www.brooklyn-living.com
>
> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
>
>