Moose is a fantastic object framework. The trouble is that, taken together with its dependencies, it\'s very big. Our profiling indicates that on our platform, simply
Jonathan Rockway wrote about APP::Peristent (which, oddly, isn't in CPAN) a few months ago. I haven't used it, but based on his above-linked blog post, it looks to provide a fairly transparent server-client architecture that you could wrap the actual processing of your CGI in.