Many thanks for your feedback. Big Medium is indeed a Perl/CGI app. As the developer, I'm obviously biased, but I do think that CGI is appropriate for this type of app.
Big Medium does its work when pages are edited/published, rather than when pages are served, building static HTML pages that scale well under even extremely high traffic. That means that Big Medium itself (the site editing tool) is used only by site editors and thus receives low traffic from a limited number of users. That, combined with Big Medium's lightweight framework and templating system, means that Big Medium would not benefit particularly from the overhead of persistent memory. CGI works well here.
As a Perl application, Big Medium installs and runs in just about any server environment, even lowest-common-denominator hosting services. It's a cinch to install. Alas, Perl got a bad rap in the late '90s when many inexperienced coders used the language to produce reams of egregious code. When done properly, however, Perl apps can be quite elegant. I'd like to think Big Medium is exactly that; it's an object-oriented MVC framework, thoughtfully constructed.
But that's all under the hood. The most important thing: it simply works (and works simply). Customers tell me they find it a pleasure to use.
Thanks again for your comment -- and for your evident concern, which I share, for solid construction and craftsmanship in software.
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Many thanks for your feedback. Big Medium is indeed a Perl/CGI app. As the developer, I'm obviously biased, but I do think that CGI is appropriate for this type of app.Big Medium does its work when pages are edited/published, rather than when pages are served, building static HTML pages that scale well under even extremely high traffic. That means that Big Medium itself (the site editing tool) is used only by site editors and thus receives low traffic from a limited number of users. That, combined with Big Medium's lightweight framework and templating system, means that Big Medium would not benefit particularly from the overhead of persistent memory. CGI works well here.
As a Perl application, Big Medium installs and runs in just about any server environment, even lowest-common-denominator hosting services. It's a cinch to install. Alas, Perl got a bad rap in the late '90s when many inexperienced coders used the language to produce reams of egregious code. When done properly, however, Perl apps can be quite elegant. I'd like to think Big Medium is exactly that; it's an object-oriented MVC framework, thoughtfully constructed.
But that's all under the hood. The most important thing: it simply works (and works simply). Customers tell me they find it a pleasure to use.
Thanks again for your comment -- and for your evident concern, which I share, for solid construction and craftsmanship in software.
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