Agree. The choice of perl actually does surprise people, genuinely. As somewhere else mentioned, even blekko uses perl. So obviously these people know what they

Agree. The choice of perl actually does surprise people, genuinely. As somewhere else mentioned, even blekko uses perl. So obviously these people know what they are doing. But that said, choosing anything interpreted does come to haunt you later on, in some way or the other. We run Java on Jettys for most of the things for our app (traffic is around 60k/70k in a day, so much less in comparison). But even with this traffic, we need to use 2 large EC2 instances in the day time. And mysteriously the Jettys keep going out of memory every now and then.* I am sure the same thing if done in C++ would need only 1 large EC2 instance. And it will also help the latency a bit, as a parallel gain. At present am analyzing the cost/benefit of such a move. Inputs are welcome. * With Java its always the memory which hurts you first. Latency wise, not much of a difference, in most cases. Edit: Down vote? Surprised. Why??