The speaker will discuss his experiences in implementing a high performance Web server cluster at Accompany, Inc. The scope of the talk would interest anyone building a medium to large scale object-oriented project with Perl. Topics include logical and physical object design; developing an object-relational database glue layer; transaction processing; architecting an OO component-based CGI framework; defining internal and external Perl APIs; Perl's I18N support, OO performance tuning issues; and lessons learned.