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Background

I've been developing the WebDyne framework to make creation of Perl-based web applications easier (for me anyway). Most of the apps I write now use John Napiorkowski's excellent PAGI design, as it supports modern asynchronous web services such as SSE and WebSockets.

One of the challenges has always been: "where do I host them?"

They run fine in Docker containers, and the demo website currently runs on Sevalla in a relatively cheap container. I could also run them in an AWS Lambda environment, but with either option I have to pick a region, and — espe…

I’ve released WebDyne 3.0, an update to the Perl-based dynamic HTML engine I have created.

The biggest addition in 3.0 is support for PAGI, alongside the existing PSGI and Apache/mod_perl backends.

PAGI support brings an asynchronous/event-oriented interface to WebDyne and allows WebDyne applications to handle more than conventional HTTP request/response traffic:

• Server-Sent Events (SSE) for streaming events from Perl applications to browsers
• WebSocket connections for bidirectional, long-lived connections
• N…