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Thread: Utilizing Perl scripts in a web service app - Performance Considerations

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    Utilizing Perl scripts in a web service app - Performance Considerations

    Looking for some insight into the performance of using XML-RPC to run perl scripts via web service.

    I am considering buying some perl scripts that have been developed to process large amounts of data as part of a backend ETL to a data warehouse. These scripts currently run as batch jobs via ksh/cron using standard filein/out. I would like to evaluate retooling them into a set of web services (e.g. SOAP, XML-RPC) to be used in an online/realtime transaction mode.

    I have done some research and prototyping to confirm that technically, it can be done, but I am concerned about performance/scalability. Seems to me that parsing the XML is going to be the biggest bottleneck. I am sure I can throw hardware at it, but I am wondering if it will be cost effective. We are talking about processing 10Gb/client per day.

    Does anyone here have any experience with perl via XML-RPC? Any insight would be appreciated.

    Rewriting these perl scripts from the ground up is not an option (too expensive).

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    Perl Scripts

    Hi,

    my experience of Perl scripts is that if you run them through a certain program, (can't remember what it is called), they come out a lot better.

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