Good luck. I've begun porting our application to Elixir because of this and other issues.
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 4:57 AM Jan Kasprzak <k...@fi.muni.cz> wrote: > Hello, mod_perl users, > > TL;DR: which Perl-based solution would you recommend for serving long-term > HTTP connections? > > We use mod_perl for our project, and we would like to add > a component which needs long-term connections (think websockets or > server-side-events > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_events/Using_server-sent_events > ). > We use mpm_prefork for the main site, so adding long-term connections > there is not feasible. So I am looking for alternatives. The logic > behind this application would probably not be overly complicated, > probably just forwarding pub/sub events from Redis or some other > message broker to HTTP clients or something like that. > > I would expect to serve about 30-100k simultaneous connections, > not necessarily handled by a single host. The peak value of 10k connections > per host would be sufficient. I expect I will put haproxy or some other > load balancer in front of these servers, so for example SSL/TLS is not > strictly necessary. > > Is mod_perl with mpm_worker suitable for this task? Or should I use > something AnyEvent-based, such as Twiggy (I don't know whether Twiggy > supports multiple processes/threads)? Or even something completely > different? > > Thanks in advance for any recommendations. > > -Yenya > > -- > | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas at {fi.muni.cz - work | yenya.net - private}> > | > | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ GPG: 4096R/A45477D5 > | > We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on > when it's necessary to compromise. --Larry Wall > -- John Dunlap *CTO | Lariat * *Direct:* *j...@lariat.co <j...@lariat.co>* *Customer Service:* 877.268.6667 supp...@lariat.co