My first response is, “What makes you think they don’t?” But I must point out that at the scale that Amazon runs at, the technology used for front end web page rendering – as critical as it is – not what runs Amazon.
Can you run service calls to caches and systems from a mason-based mod_perl interface? Load Amazon.com to find out. Does that mean its running on mod_perl? Debatable. There are so many systems that are loosely coupled – they respond to, accept data from, and otherwise interact with the web site end of the system – but they’re java and c++ as well as perl – and THOSE – in my opinion at least – are ‘what amazon runs on’. And when you’re talking about what amazon runs on - these ‘back end’ type systems (those which are not specifically involved in the rendering of a page for display via http) mod_perl is of course *not* what they use, because – even if they ARE written in perl – they don’t work in that particular paradigm. So is ‘what you run on’ defined by your web server page view controller software – or the software that actually runs the heart your business and processes? Hmm. Does Coca-Cola run on a factory, or on a delivery truck? David From: Brad Van Sickle [mailto:bvs7...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:32 PM To: mod_perl list Subject: Re: Why people not using mod_perl But I'm very interested to know at what point (if any) a site/app grows too large or too complex for mod_perl and what defines that turning point. Could Amazon run on mod_perl for example?
