my manager's boss is asking this question. I guess he wants the BIG ( popular, mission-critical, e-commerce) websites mostly built on Perl.
i compiled a short list. btw, why aren't there anything on perl.org?
amazon.comBank of CanadaBBCticketmasterPBSUniversity of BuffaloWired magazinedel.icio.uslivejournalvoxncaasports.com
University of Buffalo is here because we are a University too.
livejournal and del.icio.us are probably less known to the manager. OTOH, myspace or youtube will be difference case.
any other convincing sites?
travelpod.com
clscott on 2007-02-27T23:24:59
Not that big but
...
www.travelpod.com
imdb.com
zrusilla on 2007-02-28T00:50:19
Don't forget the Internet Movie Database!
The Register
barbie on 2007-02-28T07:59:19
El Reg has been designed and developed by several use.perl members over the years :)
Is this just for websites or does a large portion of the world's email being scanned for viruses and spam count too? There are several large financial institutions using Perl, and many of the popular companies use it for testing. It's just nobody really shouts about it any more :(
Re:The Register
TeeJay on 2007-02-28T13:49:17
Yeah, I think most of the Managed Email Scanning industry in the UK runs on Perl.. Inty, MessageLabs, Star, all those I know of use Perl.
Re:The Register
barbie on 2007-02-28T14:41:44
Star is an ISP, which happens to use MessageLabs email scanning services. As well as being owned by MessageLabs ;)
But yes, there is a lot of Perl out there, just no-one seems to mentions it that much :(
Other sites
rafael on 2007-02-28T08:50:22
booking.com (hotel reservations, thousands per day)
slashdot.org (ok, not a manager-type website, but heavy load)
More examples
Aristotle on 2007-02-28T18:39:36
Vox runs on Catalyst. The Wayback Machine uses Perl to manage their data store; I don’t know if Google still does, but they used to.
UB Details
Most of our 'mission-critical' stuff requires login so you can't look at it, but feel free to ping me if you want info on what we're running. You can include other buzzwords like 'integrated with external apps', 'legacy integration' and 'automated workflow'. cbrandt at buffalo dot edu.
another one
mpeters on 2007-02-28T21:32:40
http://www.johnedwards.com - It's his presidential campaign site and needs to be very reliable and perform under very heavy loads (don't want to miss any of those contributions when the debates start up, now do we).
mod_perl
stu42j on 2007-03-01T23:15:20
I don't know how up to date they are but mod_perl has some lists and success stories here:
http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/index.html
mySociety
nik on 2007-03-05T15:04:49
Judging by their
source code, many of the
mySociety websites are built with Perl.
Estee Lauder
adancygier on 2008-11-26T16:57:19
Estee Lauder uses perl for all of its sites.
including clinique.com, maccosmetics.com, esteelauder.com, and aveda.com
