I'm a primarilly a .NET/js/DB developer but I know a little bit of Perl (learned the basics as my first programming language).

I've just recieved a small project in Perl 5.10+ and that sparkled my interest in Perl again. I've decided to master it alongside with Linux (debian based) which I use ocasianlly.

I've assembled a reading list of, what should be, the best books on Perl.

Now, I'm interested in service oriented programming, SOA, and since I have experience with WCF, I'm looking for something "similar" in Perl.

I was looking at Kensho::Task and saw POE and IO::Async for async programming. I also saw Mojolicious, Dancer, Catalyst and now I'm wondering where to start, what is preffered in the community etc.(I know that these things have different purposes)

Should I first learn the low level stuff (fork, socket programming) and then middlewares, before diving into high level stuff or just start at the top ?

Thanks in advance.

In reply to WCF alternative in Perl by Divan

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