This is the PSGI branch of WebGUI8 Currently, the best performance is achieved via: plackup -E none -s Starman --workers 10 --disable-keepalive You can benchmark your server via: ab -t 3 -c 10 -k http://dev.localhost.localdomain:5000/ | grep Req I'm currently getting 370 requests/second, whereas I'm getting 430/second on the non-PSGI WebGUI8 branch. = ARCHITECTURE = * The .psgi file gets to set WEBGUI_ROOT and WEBGUI_CONFIG. * It instantiates the $wg WebGUI object (one per app). * $wg creates and stores the WebGUI::Config (one per app) * $wg creates the $app PSGI app code ref (one per app) * WebGUI::Middleware::Session is wrapped around $app at the outer-most layer so that it can open and close the $session WebGUI::Session. Any other wG middleware that needs $session should go in between it and $app ($session created one per request) * $session creates the $request WebGUI::Session::Request and $response WebGUI::Session::Response objects (one per request)