DotCloud releases support for Perl, aka Camel-as-a-Service

http://blog.dotcloud.com/dotcloud-introduces-camel-as-a-service-with-i

by jpetazzo • 15 years ago

96 51 15 years ago

blog.dotcloud.com

shykes6• 15 years ago

As usual, the DotCloud team is hanging out here to answer questions, hand out truckloads of invites, etc.

grout2• 15 years ago

I would like one (1) invite. Or maybe two. Please?

shykes6• 15 years ago

How about 50? :)

http://www.dotcloud.com/account/create

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grout2• 15 years ago

Joy!

agentultra• 15 years ago

Great news for the Perl community. Congrats! And thanks as well to dotcloud for making it happen. :)

daxelrod• 15 years ago

What a fantastic idea!

I would love to know more about the discussions you had with miyagawa, and how the design for this evolved. Anything this elegant must have taken a ton of iterations.

Oh, and may I have an invite, please?

mmaunder2• 15 years ago

Nice one guys. Our company uses mostly Perl for our server side code. We'll keep you in mind as a provider.

bbbbbbbbb17• 15 years ago

huh?

- No Apache????

- why force a rather devish level PSGI module on all web applications???? oh, yeah, you've been advised by the guy who made the port...

  i've been using CGI::Fast under Apache for years and it has been working just PERFECTLY fine.
  Do not see the need to change especially when
  the PSGI doc is so badly written...
  At least the doc states that people who supports mod_perl/CGI::Fast will not see much benefit of switching to PSGI...

- what is the Perl version?

davecardwell2• 15 years ago

5.12: https://gist.github.com/945834

bbbbbbbbb17• 15 years ago

thank you! recent version, that's a plus.

shykes6• 15 years ago

We expect our choice of stack to be transparent for all developers. If it turns out it's the wrong choice, we'll either switch to Apache, or at least support both.

So far all alpha testers seemed very happy :)

bbbbbbbbb17• 15 years ago

Well, I got the invitation and while playing around with nodejs, I was really looking forward for Perl support but this is absolutely not the environment I want to work on (wanted to use an in-house framework, not the ones listed and see if DotCloud could be of use for our clients).

To tell the truth, this could be a good occasion to try to make the in-house app works in such environment but

1- don't see any real benefit

2- don't want to decipher the doc

3- no time (will have to work extra hours)

you should definitely support both environment and not base your choice on the sole feedback of one person (you know... TMTOWTDI)

perlgeek• 15 years ago

What's devish about PSGI? Seems like exactly the right choice for the task.

bbbbbbbbb17• 15 years ago

Like FastCGI is...

PSGI has been developed in 2009, then nothing for a long time (and as it hasn't spread as wild fire across providers i don't think there is enough real dev around it to assure that it is "stable" enough), now, a dev release, sure... the doc is unclear as to what it brings on the table, why it should be used, how to be used, the improvement it brings if any are really not clear... "you will be glad in the future..."...yeah, i need more than that to get people around me starting to use it.

FastCGI has been working for a long time, clear, easy and already "cross-server"...

All in all, the doc is a real problem and no hard evidence of it being used is, to some extend, an other.

davecardwell2• 15 years ago

Are there plans for a “Perl worker” component?

shykes6• 15 years ago

Absolutely. Coming soon!

g123g2• 15 years ago

This entry in their FAQ after the April 21st outage brought a chuckle-

Where is DotCloud hosted?

DotCloud runs on Amazon EC2. More specifically, we run on the us-east-1 region, across multiple availability zones.

shykes6• 15 years ago

Tell us about it. Expect accelerated plans for multi-region deployments, less reliance on EBS, and eventually support for different infrastructure providers.

g123g2• 15 years ago

Cool. I have snagged one of the invite codes. Look forward to learning more about these features when you are done.

neuroelectronic• 15 years ago

LOOOL

poisonbit• 15 years ago

Codes exhausted... anyway nice to read this.

DotCloud++ Miyagawa++ Perl++

Good luck !

questorian• 15 years ago

We are a Perl shop and this is good new for us - we need PSGI and multiple databases - This _could_ be the step we are looking for to offload our web stack...it is taking too much time to manage all that, rather than getting on with coding!

kengat• 15 years ago

this looks really cool. please send an invite code my way and i'll kick the tires. thanks in advance.

bbbbbbbbb17• 15 years ago

it seems I am not the only to not get the point of PSGI:

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/03/why-psgiplack-matt...

It resumes quite well my opinion and concern regarding the doc.

DotCloud releases support for Perl, aka Camel-as-a-Service

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