Perl for the Web provides tools and strategies to improve the performance of existing Web applications in Perl. It also provides principles and ideas that help Web programmers create an extensible framework for future growth.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Problems
    1. Sources of Unexpected Traffic
    2. Budget and Schedules Aren’t Ideal
    3. Site Design vsApplication Design
    4. Prototypes vsLive Sites
    5. Architecture-Based Performance Loss
    6. Often-Overlooked Problems
  • Part II: The Solutions
    1. Perl For the Web
    2. Performance Myths
    3. The Power of Persistence
    4. Tools For Perl Persistence
    5. Problems With Persistence
    6. Environments For Reducing Development Time
    7. Using Templates with Perl Applications
    8. Database-Backed Web Sites
    9. Testing Site Performance
  • Part III: Planning For the Future
    1. XML And Content Management
    2. Publishing XML for the Future
    3. XML as a B2B Interface
    4. Web Services
    5. Scaling a Perl Solution
    6. Perl 6 and the Future

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