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I'm sure there are additional techniques to obfuscate the private key, but relying on locked down devices isn't possible in the Android ecosystem. You don't need a device at all to perform the steps outlined in the article.
The average thread on PerlMonks (at least when I was a heavy reader) eventually turns to code golf. The language and culture both encourage that. I had a lot of fun writing clever code, and it really helped me understand data structures and efficiency at a deep level. Trying to force that culture of expression and code gymnastics to write a maintainable codebase just isn't worth it in my opinion. A language with more constraints and less magic will benefit a team trying to come together to build a product.
I see Python as being somewhere between Perl (express yourself in clever ways) and Ruby (I know it's attributed to Rails, but omakase) in terms of culture. That's why I love Python.
The largest problem is that it's largely unreadable, a write-only language. There's too much magic in Perl. Perl 6 is making strides to correct this, but the culture of Perl is what makes me believe that it will never be a viable choice over other dynamic, interpreted languages. I moved to Python and will never look back. The Perl culture is exactly what lured me in to programming, so I'd rather it not change anyways.
There are definitely still companies using Perl in production, but my guess is that it's always for legacy reasons.
Demand is elastic of course, and if you really want to scale in a cost-effective manner you also need to do auto-scaling. As far as I can tell (I have no direct experience with GAE), it's much easier on AWS. It would also be interesting to see if you can scale your pool of webservers from 1 -> 200 faster on AWS or GCE.
The article does quote @cloudpundit, who hits on the true point of the exercise: Relevance of GCE LB load test: With AWS ELB, if you expect a big spike load, must contact AWS support to have ELB pre-warmed to handle load. I would also guess that Amazon is working to improve ELB to behave similarly, especially now that Google's product has less restrictions than theirs.
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