Also, I believe DotCloud has Miyagawa on board which is a big win IMHO.
Legend has it he had perl support shipped two days after joining. Or
something.

I'm about to put a Catalyst app on it so we'll see how that flies.


On 10 Jul 2011, at 11:28, Tosh Cooey wrote:

> Mr. Hodgkinson was awesome enough to point out the existence of DotCloud: 
> https://docs.dotcloud.com/#perl.html
> 
> Looks there like they have a Perl stack available, which is super for the 
> world but not so for me since the stack requires you use PSGI which is a 
> great approach but since I don't require portability I never went that route, 
> oh woe is me...
> 
> Anyway, it's good to see there's some good Perl options out there for getting 
> rid of my admin(s).
> 
> Thanks Dave!
> 
> Tosh
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/22/64 8:59 PM, Tosh Cooey wrote:
>> The point was, and is, that it's unfortunate that mod_perl developers
>> need to:
>> 
>> 1) Build and optimize Apache.
>> 2) Build and optimize MySql.
>> 3) Build and optimize Perl+mod_perl.
>> 4) Build and optimize a Linux server environment.
>> or
>> 5) Have enough money to pay for all of the above.
>> 
>> Those are all roadblocks to development, much like your responses are to
>> this discussion.
>> 
>> My life would be a different experience if I could pay for six months of
>> your time whenever I wanted to create a new web application.
>> 
>> It would be nice to fire up a mod_perl stack somewhere (say EC2) and
>> then just modify startup.pl and install your required modules and go.
>> 
>> The dev world is moving away from requiring system administrators and
>> towards more PaaS'.
>> 
>> Tosh
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/5/11 10:48 AM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 5 Jul 2011, at 08:53, Tosh Cooey wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 7/4/11 11:26 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm not happy, hence the complaining about the AMI from 2009. But
>>>>>> I'm glad you changed the subject from your first one, which is that
>>>>>> I should build my own stack.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So basically you are saying (and only you, not a community voice)
>>>>>> that in order to be a mod_perl developer one also needs to:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1) Build and optimize Apache.
>>>>>> 2) Build and optimize MySql.
>>>>>> 3) Build and optimize Perl+mod_perl.
>>>>>> 4) Build and optimize a Linux server environment.
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> 5) Have enough money to pay for all of the above.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You have no stack.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Make one.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Better still, get a bunch of people together with the same problem.
>>>>> Dunno where
>>>>> you'd find 'em.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just spent six months helping a company do exactly[0] this and
>>>>> move off a dated
>>>>> RH platform onto a modern, current, Debian, perl 5.14, all new CPAN
>>>>> modules.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> You seem to have missed the point of my kvetching, which is perhaps a
>>>> suitable answer anyway.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What was the point?
>> 
> 
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