This is the PSGI branch of WebGUI8 To try this out: 1) Run testEnvironment.pl to install Plack 2) $ cd 3) $ plackup app.psgi 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 root level app.psgi file loads all the config files found and loads the site specific psgi file for each, linking them to the proper host names. * The site psgi file uses the WEBGUI_CONFIG environment variable to find the 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)