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Given the choice, I'd still choose it  
4.0
   
written almost 16 years ago

Given the choice between current contenders (bugzilla, rt, trac, mantis) I'd still choose Bugzilla anyday.

It is incredibly customisable and far easier to get started with than either trac or mantis.

The documentation and support is superb - I was able to brand, add extra reports, integrate a blog and cvsweb, and provide custom front pages and searching in a matter of hours, and that was back in 2002, 6 years ago - it's improved a fair ammount since then, and with it's use of TT, Classes and CPAN libraries is probably the most customisable and extensible bugtracking system available.

Having used commercial bugtracking systems I can safely say then don't even come close.

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Very fast :: lightweight proxy :: w...  
4.0
   
written about 16 years ago

We're using perlbal for 2/3 webservers and will be rolling it out for 2 more shortly, it's handling between 200 and 300 concurrent requests despite sharing a server with a busy mod_perl server and proxying to other busy servers.

The reproxying is very very useful, the ability to daisychain selectors is also a killer feature.

So far my only issues have been the level of documentation, and occasional reliability issues under nasty conditions (i.e. when other applications/servers on the same machine were very busy).

However, if you need this, then you're likely to be experienced enough to deal with using mailing list archives, etc to answer your questions.

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Well worth the learning curve  
5.0
 
written over 15 years ago

I was initially fazed by the learning curve when transitioning from Class::DBI, but once I drank the koolaid and stopped expecting it to behave exactly like CDBI and instead treated it as entirely new and seperate ORM it really clicked.

On my current project, DBIC has allowed us to focus on the business logic and not spend time worrying about mucking about with SQL.

The power and flexibility of the search interface, the ability to handle joins and prefetch data elegantly has meant that even the hairiest scariest query generation code is now managable.

The documentation and support is incredible even for the vibrant perl community you find around CPAN.

I've yet to see something close to as good provided for other languages.

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