6 engineers on Hacker News describe using mod_perl first-hand: 4 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“A lot of our CI/CD is designed around mod_perl, and in-place updates... I actually believe mod_perl is superior to (F)CGI or a PSGI server reverse proxy.”
endorse · production · rawleyfowler · 2023-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the application was mostly mod_perl, so dependencies still had to be managed, and it was intermittently a tire fire.”
regret · production · 0xbadcafebee · 2022-03-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“mod_perl 1.4 on Apache 2.0 handling 350,000 hps dynamic traffic on twenty archaic 1U's.”
endorse · production · peterwwillis · 2018-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“mod_perl is pretty fast in itself (using Apache).”
endorse · production · arc_of_descent · 2013-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually miss Apache/mod_perl which I found much simpler and more powerful”
endorse · personal · DougWebb · 2012-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“still fairly heavily tied to Apache2/mod_perl and other parts of our internal libs”
neutral · production · robn_fastmail · 2014-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?