Hello! On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 6:42 AM, highclass99 wrote: > I use perl a lot, > and I noticed > http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_perl_module.html > for several years has been documented as > "The module is experimental, caveat emptor applies." > So I have been somewhat avoiding testing its use. > > Does anyone know if this is suitable to use in high traffic production > environments?
We used to use this perl module in production about 3 years ago for relatively heavy production traffic (we have way more traffic today) but it was slow, unscalable, and blocking on I/O. We switched to the ngx_http_lua_module since then and it has been much faster and guarantees 100% nonblocking network I/O. Disclaimer: I am the maintainer of the ngx_http_lua_module. See https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#readme We still use Perl for many offline work like automated testing (based on the CPAN module Test::Nginx [1]) and WAF's Lua code generation (the modsecurity rules to Lua translator is written in Perl). I've also been working on the Lemplate compiler [2] in Perl that compiles Perl's TT2 templates down to standalone Lua code runnable atop the ngx_http_lua_module. Hope it helps. Best regards, -agentzh [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Nginx [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Lemplate _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx