The first time I loaded data onto an Elastic index, I used Perl. Then I used logstash so that I could do it the proper way. It turned out to be about twice as m

The first time I loaded data onto an Elastic index, I used Perl. Then I used logstash so that I could do it the proper way. It turned out to be about twice as much text. So this fantastic language was already there and there was already an Elastic module in CPAN. I'm biased, but you can't call this a dead language.