B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz (at) onShore.com> exclaimed:

• Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:58:39 -0600

  30000 customers looking at live quotes, dynamic charts and news.
  "[...] More importantly, mod_perl allowed us to work the webserver and
  code around our design--not the other way around."
  
  > I'm looking for more mod_perl success stories like the one that Jeff
  > posted the other day.  They will be used for vignettes in an
  > introductory chapter of the book that Doug and I are writing.  If you
  > have a story you'd like to share (particularly one in which mod_perl
  > "defeats" one of its competitors) could you mail it to me or post it
  > to the list?  For the vignettes we need some sort of identifying
  > information, either along the lines of "a major Southwestern
  > University" or "Kulturbox company of Berlin, Germany".
  
  We just completed a website for Lind-Waldock & Co.
  (http://www.lind-waldock.com/), the world's largest discount commodities
  trading firm. The site is to be used by their customers (>30,000) for
  live and delayed quotes, dynamic charts, and news pertaining to the
  futures industry, as well as access to their online order entry
  system. The site will take quite a beating once all of their customers
  transition to it from Lind's previous Windows application--plenty of live and
  delayed data is auto-refreshed.
  
  Scenario: Client needed to develop a website that could authenticate
  off their existing customer database, and many links needed to be
  dynamically generated to reflect the level of service that the
  customer subscribed to (this info also kept in the database). The
  customer area had to be SSL enabled, fast, and support a slew of Perl
  scripts that the quote vendor had already written. And of course, they
  needed the whole thing yesterday.
  
  They already had Netscape Enterprise Server and we investigated some NSAPI
  solutions but were terribly disappointed with what Netscape had to
  offer. We did some tests and decided to run with Stronghold and
  mod_perl. We wrote less than 10 lines of code to get the site
  authenticating off the database using Apache_DBI and just a few more
  to handle the dynamic URL generation.
  
  We began analysis on Dec 1, and delivered the completed site on Mar
  4--with 2 weeks off for Christmas, no less! Two days after release,
  the site is averaging about 3 requests a second--and that is certain
  to grow exponentially as more customers make the switch from the old
  Windows application.
  
  More importantly, mod_perl allowed us to work the webserver and code
  around our design--not the other way around.
  
  -Fitz
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  Brian W. Fitzpatrick        fitz@onShore.com        http://www.onShore.com/