Scalability 101 for Perl Programmers

Scalability 101 for Perl Programmers

By Sue Mynott (‎virtualsue‎) from London.pm
Date: Friday, 23 October 2009 15:30
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: perl scale


Everyone agrees that scalability is a very important component of software design, but not everyone agrees on what it is, let alone how to achieve it. What *is* it? Which aspects of scalability are particularly relevant to Perl programmers?

Myths about Perl and scalability abound, and we will analyse some of these to see if they have any validity.


Attended by: Stefano Tirabassi, Emanuele Zeppieri (‎emazep‎), Paolo Lunazzi, Stefano Rodighiero (‎larsen‎), Tim Bunce, menozero, Maciej Czekay (‎Bruno‎), Ferruccio Zamuner (‎ferz‎), Fabio Invernizzi (‎fabulus‎), lorenzo, Marco d'Itri (‎Md‎), peppe, Marco Fontani (‎mfontani‎), Henry Snoek, Fernando Vezzosi (‎Bucciarati‎), andrea ciampalini, Mathias Reitinger (‎mathias‎),

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