The Zope Component Architecture is a very powerful tool which is widely used in Plone and the Plone community. For stock users of Plone it can seem like an encumbrance, slowing the site down and complicating development without any advantages. However, even basic applications built with Plone can benefit from some ZCA tricks that are not as widely known as they should be. This talk will demonstrate simple uses of the component architecture which, along with a typical Plone stack, allow developers to deliver very performance Plone sites while simultaneously freeing the developer from the normal optimisation worries.