Yandex.Direct: our successful anti-modern Perl
By Oleg Komarov (komarov)
Date: Monday, 20 August 2012 14:00
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: database debian deployment large production scale web yandex
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Yandex is the leading internet company in Russia, operating the most popular search engine and the most visited website.
Yandex.Direct is a system for the placement of text-based advertising.
Yandex.Direct web interface is a mature Perl project with lots of users and data, a big codebase and a large team.
We always have lots of new features to implement, maintenance problems to solve and legacy code to refactor.
We (Elena Bolshakova and me) would like to give a brief talk on how we do it. Using Perl, of course.
Attended by: Oleg Komarov (komarov), Martin Becker (martin), Wolfgang Schemmel (Perleone), Tudor Constantin, Bert, Stevan Little (stevan), Gunnar Koppel (wk), Markus Monderkamp, Alexey Surikov (ksurent), Robin Sheat, Elena Bolshakova (helena), Torsten Förtsch, Ole Voß, Michael Jemmeson (michael), Anne Thorniley, Alex Timoshenko, Maxim Vuets (mvuets), Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (maddingue), Vladimir Lashko (Ostrovok), Markus Raulf, darius ungurean, anca grosan (ancag), Aaron Crane (arc), Nicolas Mendoza (nicomen), Kang-min Liu (gugod), felher, Matthias Bethke (mbethke), Tri Duong Tran, Oliver Miller,
