I wrote a language-agnostic article and posted it on Medium. Cross posting here for anyone following my Perl posts as well. I hope you enjoy it.

https://medium.com/@joel.a.berger/on-the-danger-of-software-magicians-fd8186b8945c#.lmpgrfzie

MetaCPAN is the community developed and maintained website and api for finding and learning about Perl modules. This year, we dedicated a long weekend to improving it and oh what a weekend it was!