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Perl-FPM, running Perl on nginx as FastCGI

admin Perl 31 May 2018nginx, Perl 2 Comments

Perl was the language of choice in the early days of web programming, when Perl was a synonym for CGI. Many things are changed in the meanwhile, but we can still use Perl with a modern webserver to get things done! Read more

Get started with Perl on Docker

admin Docker, Perl 17 May 2018Docker, Perl 1 Comment

Docker is the modern way for distribute applications. It allows you to create a deployable entity that will run in the same way on almost every *unix platform without the need to install anything more than same basic dependencies required by Docker itself. An ideal choice to run a code sample, a testing environment or your production application. Let’s see how to use it to run a simple Perl script. Read more

Upload huge files with Perl’s LWP::UserAgent

admin Perl 7 December 2016 2 Comments

Everybody who work with Perl knows LWP::UserAgent, the most used library when you need to work with HTTP connections.

The library has some methods that cover the most common usage cases, such as GET and POST request.
If you need something more particular you have to set up a HTTP::Request object and pass it to LWP::UserAgent’s request method. I don’t think I’m saying something unexpected.

I recently got some problems by sending a bug file. It wasn’t really big because I’m talking about a 100 MB file, but it was bit enough to send my small VPS server out of memory. This was because I needed to pass it as raw POST payload for Google Drive API and to do that I was slurping it into memory. A bad idea.

Appix, the global webapp directory
On everybody smartphone there are a lot of apps downloaded from an app store. There apps are build for a specific platform and distributed through a managed selling channel. This works well, but is not really the way the internet worked in the past few decades. At the same time technology around websites is highly
Running MySQL/MariaDB and Sphinx in Docker for powerful search
Want to setup a relational database with advanced search features? Just merge two specific software in one powerful application: MariaDB and Sphinx.
Perl6, get your test environment running in seconds
So you want to give a try to Perl6 to see what this language can do for you, but you don’t want to mess up your system with a lot of software you don’t know if will ever use again. No problem! The obvious answer is called Docker.
Perl-FPM, running Perl on nginx as FastCGI
Perl was the language of choice in the early days of web programming, when Perl was a synonym for CGI. Many things are changed in the meanwhile, but we can still use Perl with a modern webserver to get things done!
Get started with Perl on Docker
Docker is the modern way for distribute applications. It allows you to create a deployable entity that will run in the same way on almost every *unix platform without the need to install anything more than same basic dependencies required by Docker itself. An ideal choice to run a code sample, a testing environment or
How to transfer only a certain file extension with rsync
Rsync is the tool of choice if you have to transfer files from a server to another one. The tool is very powerful and has a lot of options, but is not that easy to use when you have in mind what you need to do but you don’t know how.