Simon Willison’s Weblog

Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don’t ignore it. Phillip Smith calls me out for omitting Perl from my list of Node.js event loop alternatives (I only mentioned Twisted and EventMachine). No conspiracy here, I’m just not connected enough to the Perl community to know what the popular event loop libraries are. To Perl’s credit, Perlbal was the first piece of software I saw that showed me how a single threaded, event loop based system could massively outperform a threaded alternative.

# 27th November 2009, 7:51 am / async, eventio, eventloop, eventmachine, node, perl, perlbal, twisted

Scaling your website with the Perlbal web server (PDF) (via) Perlbal documentation is pretty thin on the ground; this is a really useful introduction from Frank Wiles.

# 17th June 2008, 10:39 pm / frank-wiles, load-balancing, pdf, perlbal

Interview with Leah Culver: The Making of Pownce. Django + Perlbal + S3 + AIR.

# 7th July 2007, 10:05 pm / air, django, leah-culver, perlbal, pownce, python, s3