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Re^2: 17,000 Christmas lights controlled by Perl routineby Anonymous Monk |
| on Jan 26, 2005 at 06:03 UTC ( [id://425123]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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You can read more technical details on my christmas hoax writeup page but Perl was used for both the front-end CGI and back-end image generator - the excellent GD.pm module was key for the later.
There was some tweeks between Halloween and Christmas/2004 so that the front-end could run under mod_perl (rather than as a CGI) which has the desired effect and using ApacheBench, I measured the five time increase in peak connection rate - hey, I got Slashdotted 4 times (starting in 2002) which is one heck of a stress test! ;-) Media wasn't too happy about the hoax and therefore took a few swipes at me - check out my media commentary/correction page and then form your OWN opinion ... Bottom line is Perl (and mod_perl) ROCK! alek at www.komar.org
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