1.
• Pluggable template syntax
• Kolon (default)
• TTerse (almost TT2 compatible)
• etc
• Full-Featured AND FAST!
• On a simple benchmark, 158 times faster
than TT2 (CACHING IS ON)
• Also see Sam Graham’s Template Benchmark
site
• http://xslate.org

2.
• HTTP Client made for performance
• 7 times faster than LWP
• 4 times faster than HTTP::Lite
• 33% slower than curl
• Good for hitting REST APIs
• Not so good for acting as a mock useragent
(cookies, auth, etc)

3.
• Wrapper to hot deploy network servers
• Listens on port X, and acts as superdaemon
• No clever tricks required. Just send it a HUP signal

4.
• Better SQL::Abstract
• More or less the same API
• Internals are cleaner, so easier to extend

5.
• Bring up mysqld instance for testing
• With ease, too!
• There’s also a Test::postgresql