CPAnel is popular with shared hosting and is predominantly Perl. Companies like godaddy and eig as well as thousands of shares host still use this. Certainly a shrinking market but it has a number of years in it. Apache spamassassin is written in Perl. Other than those I rarely ever see a Perl project and if I do it was originally written in 2000.
Re:Why Perl?
by equivocates on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:59PM
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PACER -- the system that runs electronic dockets and service for all federal courts runs on perl.
Re:Why Perl?
by LinuxBender on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:13PM
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I am not permitted to name them but there is a large company that is heavily involved in the movie industry that uses perl+Oracle quite heavily in ways I never imagined to give Hollywood execs a lot of real time data.
Re:Why Perl?
by forgetfulness on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:17PM
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Yahoo used it a lot, but I'm not sure if they still do.
Athena Health's entire backend is/was in Perl as of the mid 2010s (note: I didn't work there, only interviewed once).
Booking.com is known for using perl
Re:Why Perl?
by DonHopkins on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:30AM
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For a company whose corporate headquarters are in the Netherlands, they sure have a pretty antimonarchist name: BooKing.com
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/dutch-king-...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/05/dutch-divided-...
https://dutchreview.com/news/politics/illegal-to-insult-the-...
Large parts of the ziprecruiter website are still powered by perl.
craigslist is the first one that comes to mind
perlfect
www.spareroom.co.uk
Slashdot
The Register
BBC iPlayer, at least originally
Re:Why Perl?
by absurddoctor on Saturday April 22, 2023 @09:38AM
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Tau Station, https://taustation.space/
Re:Why Perl?
by ParetoOptimal on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:13PM
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duckduckgo?
Re:Why Perl?
by the_third_wave on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:14PM
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Any company using Proxmox [1]:
$ dpkg -l|grep -i proxmox|awk '/perl/ { print $2}'
libproxmox-acme-perl
libproxmox-rs-perl
libpve-apiclient-perl
libpve-cluster-api-perl
libpve-cluster-perl
libpve-common-perl
libpve-guest-common-perl
libpve-http-server-perl
libpve-storage-perl
[1] https://proxmox.com/I found this and read some of the code a while ago. Was very surprised it was in Perl, but makes sense I guess.
A lot of OpenSuse's infrastructure has decades old perl pieces still doing part of the work of important services.
Not strictly "backend," but Amazon, AFAIK, still runs large portions of their infra tooling on Perl.
Re:Why Perl?
by ether_at_cpan on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:15PM
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Fastly does -- most of its configuration management and distribution is handled by Perl applications, and the VCL templates used for most customer boilerplate is driven by Template Toolkit.
I don't want to name names, but a few prominent Perl contributors work there (yours truly included).
I know FastMail does. IMDB was in Perl before Amazon acquisition, and was told was rewritten in java over several years. Any other interesting mentions?