All courses
Resource hub
Featured resource
Tech Upskilling Playbook 2025
Tech Upskilling Playbook

Build future-ready tech teams and hit key business milestones with seven proven plays from industry leaders.

Learn more
Hamburger Icon
  • Course
    • Libraries: If you want this course, consider one of these libraries.
    • Core Tech

Perl 5: The Big Picture

Perl has been a “go to” language of many system administrators to automate mundane and repetitive tasks. This course will teach you the value proposition of Perl and the rich ecosystem that it offers.

Saravanan Dhandapani - Pluralsight course - Perl 5: The Big Picture
by Saravanan Dhandapani
Get started Video play icon Preview course

What you'll learn

Perl has been around for more than three decades and has stood the test of time, despite heavy competition from other popular languages like Python, Java, and C#. In this course, Perl 5: The Big Picture, you’ll learn the value proposition of the Perl language. First, you’ll explore how Perl is still relevant by learning who is currently using it. Next, you’ll discover the business problem that the language solves at various stages of a DevOps pipeline. Finally, you’ll learn the Perl ecosystem and understand its tools and utilities. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll know why and how companies use the Perl language to automate and integrate development and deployment pipelines.

Table of contents

About the author

Saravanan Dhandapani - Pluralsight course - Perl 5: The Big Picture
Saravanan Dhandapani

I have been passionate about designing and developing software that is scalable, portable and maintainable.

More Courses by Saravanan