2016.11.27 in #279Meta::Hack - MetaCPAN Upgrade
Another report on MetaCPAN hackaton, this one documenting the upgrade of MetaCPAN's ElasticSearch backend from v0.20.2 to v2.4.0.
2017.05.20 in #304Leo Lapworth's report
Leo is the sysadmin for the MetaCPAN project, so a lot of his todo list related to the infrastructure, and also helped a few people get setup with the developer VM for MetaCPAN.
2019.02.05 in #394The startup stack that wasn’t
Leo looks at the best tech and development approaches of today in preparation for a start up.
2024.04.25 in #666PTS 2024 - day 1
Leo shares his contribution details of Day 1 of PTS 2024.
2025.07.28 in #732MetaCPAN's Traffic Crisis: An Eventual Success Story MetaCPAN.org, the essential search engine for Perl’s CPAN repository has faced months of severe traffic issues that brought the service to its knees with frequent 503 errors.
2026.05.08 in #772PTS 2026
Leo Lapworth highlights the 2026 Perl Toolchain Summit by describing some of the major sponsorships that made it possible. He also discusses his own efforts to modernize the MetaCPAN infrastructure and the value of in-person collaboration for solving problems with other core developers.
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