Just recently I spent a day writing a Perl chat server (and jquery webclient to go with it) for a large customer of ours, sort of a beta-gimmick for a good cust

Just recently I spent a day writing a Perl chat server (and jquery webclient to go with it) for a large customer of ours, sort of a beta-gimmick for a good customer of ours. Now the thing became "mission-critical" (esp. on Fridays...). There are like 500 intranet users connected at any given time! I pulled the whole stunt thanks to the Mojolicious framework, from this article here: https://github.com/kraih/mojo/wiki/Writing-websocket-chat-using-Mojolicious-Lite https://github.com/kraih/mojo/wiki/Writing-websocket-chat-us... Just added chat rooms and intranet user authentication. Then installed EV (for nodejs-grade event loop) from the CPAN, and the thing was deployed ready in production. Mojolicious is just amazing.