RE: [DISCUSS] The future of mod_perl

2021-03-18 Thread dcook
Sounds like mod_perl would benefit from using some CI tools. Looks like ASF provides some via https://ci.apache.org/? David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 -Original Message- Fro

RE: [DISCUSS] The future of mod_perl

2021-03-17 Thread dcook
I am not interested in performing those duties but could you clarify how many active PMC members there are currently? It looks like the list at https://perl.apache.org/about/pmc.html is over 7 years out of date. It’s unclear how up-to-date the list at https://projects.apache.org/committee.html?

RE: Question about deployment of math computing

2020-08-04 Thread dcook
Hi Wesley, I don't know all the ins and outs of Starman. I do know that Starman is a preforking web server, which uses Net::Server::PreFork under the hood. You configure the number of preforked workers to correspond with your CPU and memory limits for that server. As per the Starman documenta

RE: Question about deployment of math computing

2020-08-04 Thread dcook
That's interesting. After re-reading your earlier email, I think that I misunderstood what you were saying. Since this is a mod_perl listserv, I imagine that the advice will always be to use mod_perl rather than starman? Personally, I'd say either option would be fine. In my experience, the ke

RE: Question about deployment of math computing

2020-08-04 Thread dcook
As Mithun suggested, it's going to be slow regardless of which web server option you choose. It depends on your application, but if it's a user-facing web application, one way would be to have your client application make an API call to your backend, the backend enqueues the job in the queue,

RE: suggestions for perl as web development language [EXT]

2020-08-04 Thread dcook
I don't really see the utility of this thread, since these are just circular arguments based primarily on opinion, and no one is going to convince someone else that their opinion is wrong. That said, I'll just point out one thing about the earlier comment "How many platforms can survive 30 years.