Sometimes bugs reported on the CPAN issue tracker are the perfect excuse to improve your code. In this case, my client module for Etsy statsd service, Net::Statsd, got an update because of this ticket, RT#74172.

As with all my recent CPAN module, when a new bug is filed against it, I try to create a specific test case. Sometimes it's quite hard to do, but this time wasn't, even though I had to refactor the existing code. This allowed me to improve the testability of the code in the process, so thanks to the reporter of that ticket :)

I still haven't managed to test my own code with the statsd service, and hook it up to Graphite. Soon :-)

As usual, code is up on Github:

https://github.com/cosimo/perl5-net-statsd

And on CPAN too:

https://metacpan.org/module/Net::Statsd.
Have fun!