• 2020.02.06 in #446 Speeding Up Perl Test Suites & Test2::Aggregate
  Dimitrios shared his talk about speeding up test suites TPC2019.
• 2021.04. in #509 Perl performance on Apple M1
  
• 2022.03.05 in #554 Cloud Provider Performance Comparison - Perl & more
  Interesting performance comparison and very detailed analysis. Highly recommended if you are looking for the right cloud provider.
• 2022.03.05 in #555 Cloud Provider Performance Comparison - Perl and more
  
• 2022.11.13 in #590 Perl performance evolution over the last decade
  Kudo to Dimitrios for the hard work. It takes a lot to get the performance analysis done.
• 2023.03.31 in #610 Weather::WeatherKit and Weather::Astro7Timer
  Useful addition to the CPAN, if you want to access WeatherKit.
• 2023.03.31 in #611 Weather::WeatherKit and Weather::Astro7Timer
  
• 2023.03.31 in #611 Replacing the Dark Sky weather API: WeatherKit, 7Timer and other free APIs
  A bunch of interesting Perl modules.
• 2023.05.21 in #617 Top 10 Cloud Provider Comparison 2023: VM Performance / Price
  I always feel overwhelmed when I need to select a VM on one of the cloud providers. What do the different CPU types mean? How will the impact the performance of my application? etc.
• 2023.06 in #623 SQL::Inserter for faster/multi-row inserting
  SQL::Inserter is new CPAN module based on what is being used at SpareRoom to easily manage buffered inserts, as well as to replace SQL::Abstract's slow insert method.
• 2023.06.16 in #621 Profiling Perl under Apache
  In case you still use mod_perl and would like to know where does your code spend time.
• 2023.06.25 in #622 Cloud Provider Price Performance Comparison: Spot VMs
  Please checkout the update with regard to the Spot VM pricing.
• 2023.10.29 in #640 Setting up a free Oracle Database for Perl development
  Do you use Oracle Database then how about checkout the support to SQL::Inserter?
• 2024.05.02 in #667 Benchmark::DKbench Perl benchmark suite now supports custom benchmarks.
  
• 2024.09.26 in #688 Cloud VM performance / price comparison 2024
  Talk on the topic was presented at The Perl and Raku Conference 2024.
• 2024.10.10 in #690 Weather::OWM released on CPAN
  A new module, Weather::ORM just arrived. The OpenWeather API has a Free tier with both current weather and forecast, which makes the module useful to anyone interested in fetching weather for any location.
• 2025.03.24 in #713 Create a static mirror of your DEV blog
  An interesting direction. As far as I know DEV.to has a feature to automatically create articles from an RSS feed on your blog. So one could write the original on her own blog site and then easily post it on DEV.to as well even setting the canonical_url on DEV to point to the original article.
• 2025.03.24 in #714 Create a static mirror of your DEV blog
  Great success story of Perl. This must be shared with everyone. Kudos for the effort.
• 2025.03.27 in #714 Benchmark CPUs Easily with the dkbench Docker image
  Recently I started playing with Docker and this post caught my eyes. Cool little toy, you must check it out.
• 2025.08.13 in #734 Benchmark::MCE on CPAN
  A new entry to CPAN to benchmark MCE performance.
• 2025.12.25 in #753 NOAA::Aurora for Space Weather Forecasts
  Dimitrios writes: "With the current solar maximum, I wanted to add aurora forecasting features to my iOS weather app, Xasteria. Instead of fetching text files from NOAA, I thought it would be nice for my weather proxy server to handle that. Hence I developed NOAA::Aurora and released it to CPAN."
• 2026.03.01 in #762 Cloud VM Performance / Price comparison 2026
  This post offers a timely, data‑driven benchmark of CPU performance versus cost across 7 major cloud providers and 44 VM families, using Perl‑based tooling for reproducible results. The concise summary and practical Docker‑ready benchmark suite make it a valuable reference for developers and architects seeking real‑world insights into cloud compute value.

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