Check out http://mojolicio.us/ http://mojolicio.us/ for a more modern take on web dev in Perl -- the most common deployment is a nginx reverse proxy in front of

Check out http://mojolicio.us/ http://mojolicio.us/ for a more modern take on web dev in Perl -- the most common deployment is a nginx reverse proxy in front of the built-in (non-blocking and preforking) web server -- just like suggested setups in node/python/ruby/etc. One cool bonus that mojo provides is hot deployments, so there's no need to restart the server process to get new code.