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I wrote Perl cgi scripts for a self-serve customer admin interface for an ISP in the early 2000s. As users grew, we started hitting the limits of what 1-2G ram
by hestefisk 4y ago
I wrote Perl cgi scripts for a self-serve customer admin interface for an ISP in the early 2000s. As users grew, we started hitting the limits of what 1-2G ram could do. Thank goodness for mod_perl and HTML::Mason, which could REALLY speed up performance. I remain a huge fan of Perl these days.
- papito 4y agoStill remember reloading a page and seeing another customer's forms. mod_perl teaches you quickly about state.
- cutler 4y agoI used Perl's CGI::Application to transform an Excel spreadsheet of teachers, used for fielding telephone enquiries, into a PostgreSQL-backed web service used by 33 household brands. Everything ran on Apache CGI without a hitch for 15 years.