Jon Clausen talks about "Portable CFML with Cloud deployments, Microservices and REST" in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Jon is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Hall PaaS: Cloud CFML deployments with CommandBox and Bringing Legacy Apps Back To Life with Box Microservices.

Show notes

Hall PaaS: Cloud CFML deployments with CommandBox

Small container

What is PaaS and why would you want to use it?

Platform as a Service

How you you save DevOps headache with smart cloud deployment

Will talk about the options for using container-based PaaS solutions such as Heroku, Dokku, Kubernetes, etc for quickly standing up and scaling environments

How to implement on demand or scheduled scaling

Bringing Legacy Apps Back To Life with *Box Microservices

what is a Microserver

Monolithic code vs microservice architecture

maintainable. portable and scalable

How to overcome resource intensive sections of your code using microservice

Easier to rewrite

Why box microservices?

rapid from concept to deployment

easier deployment

Why are you proud to use CF?

most portable

efficient resource use

RAD

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

talk it up

easy and pain free development

RESTful services 1-day workshop

What is REST?

representational - JSCON or XML from you model

Why Stateless matters?

Portable API pattern

Scalable API pattern

Transfer

HTML

binary internal REST transfer

Logic deduplication

Versioning of API

This workshop is designed for beginning or intermediate ColdBox developers and focuses on the understanding and implementation of RESTful applications, modules, and microservices. At the end of the workshop, the participant will have developed a working RESTful API service which can be used as a baseline template for their own future development needs.  The API service will be scaffolded and implemented using a variety of readily-available tools, such as CommandBox and the ColdBox REST application skeleton.

What are you looking forward to at Into The Box conference?

Mentioned in this episode

Docker swarm

Heroku

Dokku

Kubernetes

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Bio

Jon Clausen

Jon Clausen hails from Grand Rapids, Michigan and has been developing CFML applications for over a decade. He was born and raised in South Dakota and attended SDSU and DePaul University. In 2004, after 14 years with a Fortune 100 company, he founded Silo, a full-stack development and technology consulting firm in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Jon has developed and written applications in CFML, Javascript, PHP, and Ruby in addition to dabbling in Java, Python, Bash, Scala and Clojure. He keeps current with both old and new database technologies including SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and - his personal NoSQL favorite - MongoDB.

After hours, Jon enjoys theater, fishing for smallmouth bass on the Great Lakes, and chauffeuring his 12-year-old daughter back and forth to the horse stables.

He is pleased to represent Ortus Solutions as a product evangelist for the Box products and is eternally grateful for tools like ColdBox and CommandBox, which continue to evolve and demonstrate a bright future for CFML development

(* WWIT = What Would It Take)

Links

Ortus Solutions

CommandBox

Interview transcript

Michaela Light:               Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jon Clausen. I hope I'm pronouncing that right, Jon.

Jon Clausen:                    Clausen but close enough.

Michaela Light:               Clausen, all right. And he's the president of Silo Webworks and a part of the artist team and he's going to be speaking into the b...