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Ian Kallen presentation from 2000 on Salon.com's spec/design of its CMS (which uses mod_perl and HTML::Mason and Oracle). This was later spun out into the open-source Bricolage project. Baking vs frying, comparison of development languages and application servers, etc. However, most web content doesn't change with a frequency that requires a web Application Server.

Here's a Dec2001 article about building Salon's premium/subscription registration functionality, using JavaBeans and MySQL.