diff --git a/Etsy/StatsD.pm b/Etsy/StatsD.pm
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+package Etsy::StatsD;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use IO::Socket;
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+Etsy::StatsD
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+=cut
+
+=over
+
+=item new (HOST, PORT, SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+Create a new instance.
+
+=cut
+
+sub new {
+	my ($class, $host, $port, $sample_rate) = @_;
+	$host = 'localhost' unless defined $host;
+	$port = 8125 unless defined $port;
+	bless {host=>$host, port=>$port, sample_rate=>$sample_rate}, $class;
+}
+
+=item timing(STAT, TIME, SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+Log timing information
+
+=cut
+
+sub timing {
+	my ($self, $stat, $time, $sample_rate) = @_;
+	$self->send({$stat => "$time|ms"}, $sample_rate);
+}
+
+=item increment(STATS, SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+Increment one of more stats counters.
+
+=cut
+
+sub increment {
+	my ($self, $stats, $sample_rate) = @_;
+	$self->update($stats, 1, $sample_rate);
+}
+
+=item increment(STATS, SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+Decrement one of more stats counters.
+
+=cut
+
+sub decrement {
+	my ($self, $stats, $sample_rate) = @_;
+	$self->update($stats, -1, $sample_rate);
+}
+
+=item increment(STATS, DELTA, SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+Update one of more stats counters by arbitrary amounts.
+
+=cut
+
+sub update {
+	my ($self, $stats, $delta, $sample_rate) = @_;
+	$delta = 1 unless defined $delta;
+	my %data;
+	if (ref($stats) eq 'ARRAY') {
+		%data = map {$_ => "$delta|c"} @$stats;
+	} else {
+		%data = ($stats => "$delta|c");
+	}
+	$self->send(\%data, $sample_rate);
+}
+
+=item send(DATA, SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+Sending logging data; implicitly called by most of the other methods.
+
+=back
+
+=cut
+
+sub send {
+	my ($self, $data, $sample_rate) = @_;
+	$sample_rate = $self->{sample_rate} unless defined $sample_rate;
+
+	my $sampled_data;
+	if ( defined($sample_rate) and $sample_rate < 1 ){
+		while (my($stat,$value) = each %$sampled_data) {
+			$sampled_data->{$stat} = "$value|\@$sample_rate" if rand() <= $sample_rate;
+		}
+	} else {
+		$sampled_data = $data;
+	}
+	
+	return '0 but true' unless keys %$sampled_data;
+
+	my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
+		PeerAddr        => $self->{host},
+		PeerPort        => $self->{port},
+		Proto           => 'udp',
+	) or return undef;
+
+	#failures in any of this can be silently ignored
+	my $count=0;
+	while (my($stat,$value) = each %$sampled_data) {
+		print $sock "$stat:$value\n";
+		++$count;
+	}
+	close $sock;
+	return $count;
+}
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Steve Sanbeg L<http://www.buzzfeed.com/stv>
+
+=cut
+
+1;
diff --git a/perl-example.pl b/perl-example.pl
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+#! /usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Getopt::Long;
+use lib '.';
+use Etsy::StatsD;
+
+my %opt; 
+
+GetOptions(\%opt, 'host=s', 'port=s', 'sample=f', 'time=f', 'increment', 'decrement', 'update=i') or die;
+
+my $bucket = shift or die "Need to provide a bucket";
+
+my $statsd = Etsy::StatsD->new($opt{host}, $opt{port}, $opt{rate});
+if ($opt{time}) {
+	$statsd->timing($bucket,$opt{time});
+}
+if ($opt{increment}) {
+	$statsd->increment($bucket);
+}
+if ($opt{update}) {
+	$statsd->update($bucket, $opt{update});
+}
+if ($opt{decrement}) {
+	$statsd->decrement($bucket);
+}
+