28th German Perl Workshop (2026, Berlin)

Cross-posted from my blog

Last week, the Perl community came together for the 28th German Perl Workshop. This year, it was held at the Heilandskirche in Berlin Moabit. Excitingly, we had the nave for the presentations.

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While the name is still German Perl Workshop, we now draw attendees from all over the globe. Presenters came from India, the US and various European countries. Maybe it is time to announce it as a more international conference again.

Coding Agents using Anthropic and z.ai - presentation at the German Perl Workshop 2026

My presentation will look at coding agents from Anthropic and z.ai with the following questions:

How (well) can coding agents support Perl code?

What differences are there between the models?

How can I get agents to write good code?

Hope to see you there:

https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2026/

Sharding a Database - presentation at the German Perl Workshop 2026

We're happy to have Abigail present at the German Perl Workshop 2026!

Sharding a database, twice richtet sich an Alle und wird in English gehalten.

There comes a time in the life time of a database, the database takes too many resources (be it disk space, number of I/O transactions, or something else) to be handled by a single box.

Sharding, where data is distributed over several identically shaped databases is one technique to solve this.

For a high volume database I used to work with, we hit this limit about a dozen…

Otobo supports the German Perl Workshop

We are happy to announce that Otobo also is part of our event!

Die Rother OSS GmbH ist Source Code Owner und Maintainer der Service Management-Plattform OTOBO.

Gemeinsam mit der Community entwickeln wir OTOBO kontinuierlich weiter und sorgen dafür, dass das Tool zu 100 % Open Source bleibt.
Unsere Kunden unterstützen wir mit partnerschaftlicher Beratung, Training, Entwicklung, Support und Managed Services.
https://otobo.io/de/unternehmen/karriere/

vitroconnect sponsors the German Perl Workshop

We are proud to have the support of vitroconnect.

vitroconnect implementiert Schnittstellen und Geschäftsprozesse für eine Reihe von marktführenden Unternehmen über die eigene Brokerage Plattform. Darüber hinaus können auch frei konfigurierbare White Label Bündelprodukte geliefert werden. Seit 2011 ist vitroconnect mit seinen Kund:innen aus der Telekommunikation gewachsen:​ Auf der vitroconnect Plattform werden aktuell über 100 Partner verwaltet.​ vitroconnect ist die größte netzunabhängige Brokerage-Plattform​ für TK-Breitband…