Session Parallel Sessions in Perl Uri Guttman, Software Architect, Stem Systems Track: Perl Date: Wednesday, July 28 Time: 5:20pm - 6:05pm Location: Salon B TrackBack This talk covers the tough problem of how complex applications can handle multiple sessions in parallel. It is even tougher when those sessions have to do other remote operations such as querying other servers. Middleware systems, such as those between a webserver and the backend database, commonly show this design problem. In order for middleware to support remote calls, each session must save control state so it can continue from that point when the remote call comes back. This is in addition to tracking the state information about the original incoming request that initiated this session. Another hurdle is when each session's remote requests can be done in parallel (e.g. the requests are asynchronous). This talk will cover several different ways to implement such sessions in Perl. The techniques covered include threads, pre-spawned threads, forked processes, event loop, co-routines and Stem. Each of these will be explored and explained with working code, and their pros and cons will be discussed. Some of the solutions will have a variant, which supports parallel asynchronous remote requests. Benchmarks comparing their efficiency will also be shown. The goal of this talk is to show a range of solutions for this complex problem so that you can learn about new techniques and better decide which way best suits your development needs and skills.

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