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What companies are still using Perl on the backend? I know FastMail does. IMDB was in Perl before Amazon acquisition, and was told was rewritten in java over s

by winrid 4y ago

What companies are still using Perl on the backend? I know FastMail does. IMDB was in Perl before Amazon acquisition, and was told was rewritten in java over several years. Any other interesting mentions?

tribby 4y ago
craigslist is the first one that comes to mind
- lukasb 4y ago
  perfect
  - thesh4d0w 4y ago
    perlfect
xyzzy4747 4y ago
Athena Health's entire backend is/was in Perl as of the mid 2010s (note: I didn't work there, only interviewed once).
aeruder 4y ago
Large parts of the ziprecruiter website are still powered by perl.
ojhughes 4y ago
Booking.com is known for using perl
- DonHopkins 4y ago
  For a company whose corporate headquarters are in the Netherlands, they sure have a pretty antimonarchist name: BooKing.com https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/dutch-king-insult/491498/ https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/dutch-king-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/05/dutch-divided-over-law-against-insulting-the-king https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/05/dutch-divided-... https://dutchreview.com/news/politics/illegal-to-insult-the-king/ https://dutchreview.com/news/politics/illegal-to-insult-the-...
equivocates 4y ago
PACER -- the system that runs electronic dockets and service for all federal courts runs on perl.
ParetoOptimal 4y ago
duckduckgo?
Bender 4y ago
I am not permitted to name them but there is a large company that is heavily involved in the movie industry that uses perl+Oracle quite heavily in ways I never imagined to give Hollywood execs a lot of real time data.
forgetfulness 4y ago
Yahoo used it a lot, but I'm not sure if they still do.
HeckFeck 4y ago
www.spareroom.co.uk Slashdot The Register BBC iPlayer, at least originally Also I'm sure someone recently wrote a text-based MMO in Perl but I forget the name of it
- absurddoctor 4y ago
  Tau Station, https://taustation.space/ https://taustation.space/
quags 4y ago
CPAnel is popular with shared hosting and is predominantly Perl. Companies like godaddy and eig as well as thousands of shares host still use this. Certainly a shrinking market but it has a number of years in it. Apache spamassassin is written in Perl. Other than those I rarely ever see a Perl project and if I do it was originally written in 2000.
the_third_wave 4y ago
Any company using Proxmox [1]: $ dpkg -l|grep -i proxmox|awk '/perl/ { print $2}' libproxmox-acme-perl libproxmox-rs-perl libpve-apiclient-perl libpve-cluster-api-perl libpve-cluster-perl libpve-common-perl libpve-guest-common-perl libpve-http-server-perl libpve-storage-perl [1] https://proxmox.com/
- winrid 4y ago
  I found this and read some of the code a while ago. Was very surprised it was in Perl, but makes sense I guess.
- dizhn 4y ago
  A lot of OpenSuse's infrastructure has decades old perl pieces still doing part of the work of important services.
jwestbury 4y ago
Not strictly "backend," but Amazon, AFAIK, still runs large portions of their infra tooling on Perl.
ether_at_cpan 4y ago
Fastly does -- most of its configuration management and distribution is handled by Perl applications, and the VCL templates used for most customer boilerplate is driven by Template Toolkit. I don't want to name names, but a few prominent Perl contributors work there (yours truly included).

by winrid 4y ago

tribby 4y ago

craigslist is the first one that comes to mind

lukasb 4y ago
perfect
- thesh4d0w 4y ago
  perlfect

xyzzy4747 4y ago

Athena Health's entire backend is/was in Perl as of the mid 2010s (note: I didn't work there, only interviewed once).

aeruder 4y ago

Large parts of the ziprecruiter website are still powered by perl.

ojhughes 4y ago

Booking.com is known for using perl

DonHopkins 4y ago
For a company whose corporate headquarters are in the Netherlands, they sure have a pretty antimonarchist name: BooKing.com https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/dutch-king-insult/491498/ https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/dutch-king-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/05/dutch-divided-over-law-against-insulting-the-king https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/05/dutch-divided-... https://dutchreview.com/news/politics/illegal-to-insult-the-king/ https://dutchreview.com/news/politics/illegal-to-insult-the-...

equivocates 4y ago

PACER -- the system that runs electronic dockets and service for all federal courts runs on perl.

ParetoOptimal 4y ago

duckduckgo?

Bender 4y ago

I am not permitted to name them but there is a large company that is heavily involved in the movie industry that uses perl+Oracle quite heavily in ways I never imagined to give Hollywood execs a lot of real time data.

forgetfulness 4y ago

Yahoo used it a lot, but I'm not sure if they still do.

HeckFeck 4y ago

www.spareroom.co.uk Slashdot The Register BBC iPlayer, at least originally Also I'm sure someone recently wrote a text-based MMO in Perl but I forget the name of it

absurddoctor 4y ago
Tau Station, https://taustation.space/ https://taustation.space/

quags 4y ago

CPAnel is popular with shared hosting and is predominantly Perl. Companies like godaddy and eig as well as thousands of shares host still use this. Certainly a shrinking market but it has a number of years in it. Apache spamassassin is written in Perl. Other than those I rarely ever see a Perl project and if I do it was originally written in 2000.

the_third_wave 4y ago

Any company using Proxmox [1]: $ dpkg -l|grep -i proxmox|awk '/perl/ { print $2}' libproxmox-acme-perl libproxmox-rs-perl libpve-apiclient-perl libpve-cluster-api-perl libpve-cluster-perl libpve-common-perl libpve-guest-common-perl libpve-http-server-perl libpve-storage-perl [1] https://proxmox.com/

winrid 4y ago
I found this and read some of the code a while ago. Was very surprised it was in Perl, but makes sense I guess.
dizhn 4y ago
A lot of OpenSuse's infrastructure has decades old perl pieces still doing part of the work of important services.

jwestbury 4y ago

Not strictly "backend," but Amazon, AFAIK, still runs large portions of their infra tooling on Perl.

ether_at_cpan 4y ago

Fastly does -- most of its configuration management and distribution is handled by Perl applications, and the VCL templates used for most customer boilerplate is driven by Template Toolkit. I don't want to name names, but a few prominent Perl contributors work there (yours truly included).