YAPC::EU 2010 - The Renaissance of Perl

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The past edition of the YAPC, held in Lisbon, Portugal, with over 300 attendees and 4 tracks for 3 days of conference.

cPanel is the industry leader for turning standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform. Tedious tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration including admin, reseller, end user, and email-based interfaces. These multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user.

Shadowcat helps companies around the world to develop flexible, dependable and cost-effective business applications with Catalyst and DBIx::Class. Led by Matt S. Trout, Catalyst core team member, DBIx::Class project founder and author of "The Definitive Guide to Catalyst", our hand picked team of technology experts is the largest concentration of Catalyst development consultancy skills in the world. We offer a range of support and consultancy contracts to give your team access to the skills and knowledge that will make your project a success.

123people Aims to Help You Manage Your Ever-Expanding Online Footprint.
123people is a real time people search service that looks into nearly every corner of the Web. Using our proprietary search algorithm, you can find comprehensive and centralised name related information consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and Wikipedia profiles plus much more. All of this rich media content is pulled from an extensive list of international and regional relevant sources in over 11 countries in multiple languages. The 123people application is all Perl - built on Catalyst, DBIx::Class and plenty of magic.

Venda is a SaaS eCommerce provider with offices in the UK, US and Asia. Our technology powers over 100 sites with clients including Tesco, TK Maxx, Wilkinson's, BBC Shop, Boohoo, Conde Nast, Abbott Labs and Altec Lansing. We also have strategic partnerships with eBay, PayPal, Digby and Avail.
The platform is built predominantly in Perl, and 3 teams of 20 application developers look after the core app from our London office. We actively use Moose, Catalyst and ActiveMQ and our current projects include plugging in new Search technologies (Xapian, Solr), writing a mobile API and switching to mongoDB to store our catalogue information.

Dada, listed on the MTA market in the STAR (DA.MI) segment of the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international leader in Digital Music, Entertainment and on-line Gaming services via web and mobile, as well as in Domain, Hosting and advanced online Advertising solutions. More than 600 highly skilled professional currently work in Dada among its offices in Florence, Milan, Bergamo, New York, Barcelona, Paris, London, Worcester, Rio Janeiro.

The YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) is a non-profit organization which works to promote Perl in Europe primarily through public events. YEF supports conference organizers with kickstart donations and by sponsoring an online payment system that can be connected to Act. The venue committee also reviews proposals for the annual YAPC::Europe conference. YEF is not affiliated with The Perl Foundation (TPF), which operates worldwide and has a broader mission of supporting Perl. However, the two organizations sometimes cooperate on European events.

Smart Open Software Srl (SOS) is a small software firm located in Rome, Italy. We are committed to building the best software products possible (mainly web-based), using solely open standards and technologies. Our flagship product is an innovative web-based data-mining and DSS software, mainly targeted at the health-care and the banking sectors. We have been in business since 2003.

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout it's history. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, and packaged software — including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Booking.com. The flagship MySQL offering is MySQL Enterprise, a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services available in an affordable annual subscription. MySQL is a key part of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python), the fast-growing open source enterprise software stack. More and more companies are using LAMP as an alternative to expensive proprietary software stacks because of its lower cost and freedom from platform lock-in.

Exonetric Consulting Ltd is an Internet hosting specialist targeting niche open source-based managed and unmanaged solutions. In particular, we specialise in FreeBSD hosting both on dedicated hardware and we have extensive knowledge of systems management techniques and priorities. We offer low-overhead virtual UNIX server environments, IMAP-based email with advanced spam filtering, Managed Hosting Systems Design and Architecture services for Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD systems. Our virtual UNIX server environments use the FreeBSD “Jail” facility which has a lower overhead than typical virtual service environments on the market, meaning we can run more of them on a given piece of hardware without affecting the end-user's experience. Our "jail" environments are perfect for developing and hosting online Perl applications. We also specialise in managed hosting, ensuring uptime of systems and network and managing security updates. We provide monitoring and alerting on unusual conditions in a customer's IT environment and expose very comprehensive real-time system utilisation data. For bigger customers, we assist with capacity planning and recommendations for best-fit software components as well as assisting with designing management systems for clusters of servers. We are also researching ever-more efficient servers. Our custom management and billing systems are all written using Modern Perl. Exonetric addresses the server and system management headache with novel value-for-money solutions.

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