use Perl

• infrastructure questions, not language questions (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  Load balancing and fault-tolerence are fairly easy to code into a decent enterprise perl application.

  It could mean anything from sharing user sessions between servers or using a reverse-proxy direct traffic accross mutiple application servers and cache responses to slow connections, etc.

  Plucking a figure out of the air, 99% of load balancing and fault tolerence is done with the web servers, database servers & connections, and network design.

  There are modules and tools that allow you to integrate t

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  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;
• perl used in some big places (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  Any major search engine you use on the web that isn't built inhouse uses perl - MSN, Yahoo, etc all use Perl to get the job done, it plays a major role in google too.

  Any online trading and a large ammount of the finance analysis and trading support systems are based on perl.

  Livejournal and OSDN and several major magazines and newspapers use perl to power their websites.

  Perl keeps the Internet working and running every day.

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  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;