Setup

Perl 5.10+
MySQL 5.5
Wrk 2.0

Requirements

Web::Simple
DBD::mysql
Starman (if using Starman as web server)
Plack (for plackup)
nginx (if you want to front Dancer with nginx, nginx.conf provided)

Deployment

Something along the lines of

plackup -E production -s Starman --workers=8 -l /tmp/frameworks-benchmark.sock -a ./app.pl

if you want to front it with nginx, otherwise

plackup -E production -s Starman --port=8080 --workers=8 -a ./app.pl