Practical Perl Tools: Give it a REST

Believe it or not, there’s a good reason that this column returns to the subject of Web API programming on a fairly regular basis. As time goes on, much of the work of your average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill sysadmin/devops/SRE person involves interacting/integrating with and incorporating services other people have built as part of the infrastructure we run. I think it is safe to say that a goodly number of these interactions take place or will take place via a REST-based API. Given this, I thought it might be a good idea to take a quick look at some of the current Perl modules that can make this process easier.