DotCloud releases support for Perl, aka Camel-as-a-Service

[mmaunder]

Nice one guys. Our company uses mostly Perl for our server side code. We'll keep you in mind as a provider.

[shykes]

As usual, the DotCloud team is hanging out here to answer questions, hand out truckloads of invites, etc.

[daxelrod]

What a fantastic idea!

I would love to know more about the discussions you had with miyagawa, and how the design for this evolved. Anything this elegant must have taken a ton of iterations.

Oh, and may I have an invite, please?

[questorian]

We are a Perl shop and this is good new for us - we need PSGI and multiple databases - This _could_ be the step we are looking for to offload our web stack...it is taking too much time to manage all that, rather than getting on with coding!

[agentultra]

Great news for the Perl community. Congrats! And thanks as well to dotcloud for making it happen. :)

[grout]

I would like one (1) invite. Or maybe two. Please?

[shykes]

How about 50? :)

http://www.dotcloud.com/account/create

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[davecardwell]

Are there plans for a “Perl worker” component?

[shykes]

Absolutely. Coming soon!

[poisonbit]

Codes exhausted... anyway nice to read this.

DotCloud++ Miyagawa++ Perl++

Good luck !

[g123g]

This entry in their FAQ after the April 21st outage brought a chuckle-

Where is DotCloud hosted?

DotCloud runs on Amazon EC2. More specifically, we run on the us-east-1 region, across multiple availability zones.

[shykes]

Tell us about it. Expect accelerated plans for multi-region deployments, less reliance on EBS, and eventually support for different infrastructure providers.

[neuroelectronic]

LOOOL

[kengat]

this looks really cool. please send an invite code my way and i'll kick the tires. thanks in advance.

[bbbbbbbbb]

it seems I am not the only to not get the point of PSGI:

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/03/why-psgiplack-matt...

It resumes quite well my opinion and concern regarding the doc.

[bbbbbbbbb]

huh?

- No Apache????

- why force a rather devish level PSGI module on all web applications???? oh, yeah, you've been advised by the guy who made the port...

  i've been using CGI::Fast under Apache for years and it has been working just PERFECTLY fine.
  Do not see the need to change especially when
  the PSGI doc is so badly written...
  At least the doc states that people who supports mod_perl/CGI::Fast will not see much benefit of switching to PSGI... 

- what is the Perl version?

[davecardwell]

5.12: https://gist.github.com/945834

[perlgeek]

What's devish about PSGI? Seems like exactly the right choice for the task.

[shykes]

We expect our choice of stack to be transparent for all developers. If it turns out it's the wrong choice, we'll either switch to Apache, or at least support both.

So far all alpha testers seemed very happy :)