Perl Server & Access Configuration
Summary
Perl is a general purpose UNIX based programming language that deals largely with system administration areas. It's usage in web development revolves primarily around server configuration and access configuration.
Integration
Our use of Perl throughout our platform deals primarily with how your content is served, how it's optimized, caching it and zipping it for browsers that support it.
Many websites for example do not zip the content of the source code that is sent to the client. This configuration increases the user experience by minimizing download time, and pushing decompression to the client side, where it is much faster.
Additionally, we use Perl to secure our platform and system by masking the real locations of files, requests and static media. This precaution allows us to ensure only our system administrators have proper privileges to access your data.
Result
While for security reasons we can't go into too much detail on how we use Perl with our server configuration, we can tell you that that result of this process results in a very fast client and server response time, a secured gateway through which your static media (e.g. videos, pictures) is mirrored globally through our partnership with SimpleCDN, and proper file permissions for different types of users.
