My company uses Perl for web development. It handles real time payment transactions without any problem. Good software is made by the people not by the language.
Joseph On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 10:28 AM James Smith <j...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > *From:* John Dunlap <j...@lariat.co> > *Sent:* 04 August 2020 15:30 > *To:* Wesley Peng <m...@yonghua.org> > *Cc:* mod_perl list <modperl@perl.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: suggestions for perl as web development language [EXT] > > > > The fundamental and, in my opinion, fatal flaws of mod_per are as follows: > > > 1) Concurrency. mod_perl is pretty close to forced to use mpm_prefork > because very few perl dependencies are thread safe. > > > > Concurrency in extreme conditions - is actually better when it comes to > mod_perl than a number of other solutions – e.g. nginx/starman. > Apache/mod_perl is much better at handling large numbers of simultaneous > requests than the systems which fork a number of small processes at start > up to handle requests. You either have to fork a large number of these or > pray you don’t get large numbers of simultaneous requests. Some of our > systems have long return times for queries due to the terra/petabyte scale > of some of our backend servers. > > > > > 2) mod_perl cannot provide web sockets. > > > > True – we haven’t really found an excuse for web-sockets although our > front end “Application Delivery Controller” (which sits in the DMZ) can > manage proxying requests that need sockets one way and others that don’t > another way. > > There are still a lot of issues with web-sockets – due to not all proxies > handling these requests and so have to limit their use in a lot our cases [ > a lot of our users are on networks that sit behind proxy/cache servers ] > > > > > Due to these reasons, my organization has started looking at ways to > move away from mod_perl. > > > > We are using more off the shelf packages for some of our applications – > e.g. Wordpress as a CMS/Object manager, and yes we are also moving to more > front-end centric applications. But many of our fundamental pieces of code > are still working in Apache/mod_perl as it is a better, more-reliable > language to work with. > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 5:43 AM Wesley Peng <m...@yonghua.org> wrote: > > greetings, > > My team use all of perl, ruby, python for scripting stuff. > perl is stronger for system admin tasks, and data analysis etc. > But for web development, it seems to be not as popular as others. > It has less selective frameworks, and even we can't get the right people > to do the webdev job with perl. > Do you think in today we will give up perl/modperl as web development > language, and choose the alternatives instead? > > Thanks & Regards > > > > -- > > John Dunlap > > CTO | Lariat > > > > *Direct:* > > j...@lariat.co > > > *Customer Service:* > > 877.268.6667 > > supp...@lariat.co > > -- The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a > charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered > in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, > London, NW1 2BE. >
