> On 4 Aug 2020, at 21:41, Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am genuinely curious what are these other "well known" means ? > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Mark Blackman <m...@blackmans.org > <mailto:m...@blackmans.org>> wrote: > > > > On 4 Aug 2020, at 17:58, Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com > > <mailto:mit...@gmail.com>> 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
