Frenemies part 2: What a difference a (Perl) module makes

• roast

  65 177 8.3 Raku

  🦋 Raku test suite

  

Last week I explored using the Inline::Perl5 module to port a short Perl script to Raku while still keeping its Perl dependencies. Over at the Dev.to community, Dave Cross pointed out that I could get a bit more bang for my buck by letting his Feed::Find do the heavy lifting instead of WWW::Mechanize’s more general-purpose parsing.

• metacpan-web

  40 411 8.8 Perl

  Web interface for MetaCPAN

  

A little more MetaCPAN investigation yielded XML::Feed, also maintained by Dave, and it had the added benefit of obviating my need of XML::RSS by not only discovering feeds but also retrieving and parsing them. It also handles the Atom syndication format as well as RSS (hi daxim!). Putting it all together produces the following much shorter and clearer Perl:

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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