Patrick Quinn talks about “CFML Secrets (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He is the CoFounder, CEO and CTO of Webapper and  Global Product manager at LAS.

"We think doing more of what we’ve been doing would be the best way to make CFML a more “alive” community. For Webapper’s part, we’ve updated our offerings to include Amazon cloud hosting, released 3 new versions of our SeeFusion product in the past year (including with AWS integrations), and, most importantly, we’ve put our financial and technical backing behind Lucee, the F/OSS CFML platform. In our opinion, Lucee is the most exciting and energetic force in the CFML world. We think it’s the future of CFML, and we’re excited to watch it grow, and to be a part of that growth with our Lucee-centered products and services." Patrick Quinn

Show notes

The Challenges of AWS managed Lucee hosting

What is new at Webapper

AWS

“Infrastructure as code”

The move from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee CFML

ACF cloud pricing model and Adobe EULA - pay per server virtual instance

Joined LAS

On the Board of Directors

Global Product Manager of LAS

Monthly release cycle / sprint

More transparency

Build automation

Test driven development

What is exciting about Lucee in the coming year

Same day/hour Security hotfixes

More releases and smoother regressions/fewer bugs

Test coverage checking

The Lucee Roadmap for Lucee 5.3 and 6.0

Approx 12-18 months away (not official date)

Feature voting in Lucee JIRA ticketing system

Sponsored fixes

Backwards compatibility of X.0 releases

Commercial software vs open source software

Supporting the last two prior major releases. 5-10 year support window

Lightweight install and small footprint

Faster start up

Official Lucee AWS server gold image in the cloud (AWS marketplace) AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

Pre-installed, pre-optimized

Contributor paid cloud version

SeeFusion Secrets for CF high performance

CF Cloud monitoring support

Amazon cloudwatch integration

Been available for 13 years

SeeFusion 5.2 due in August

Cloud licensing by server per hour

Why are you proud to use CFML?

We’ve always loved CFML as a core tool of ours because of its combined simplicity and power. It has also acted as a great technical “glue” for us over the years, connecting systems, marshaling different technologies together into one stack, etc. Beyond its usefulness, we’re also proud of its history, in particular of its status as the first application server to market in 1995. Since most of us at Webapper worked at Allaire Corporation, we’ve always been proud of being part of that technical and corporate history.

Best of breed tool

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

We think doing more of what we’ve been doing would be the best way to make CFML a more “alive” community. For Webapper’s part, we’ve updated our offerings to include Amazon cloud hosting, released 3 new versions of our SeeFusion product in the past year (including with AWS integrations), and, most importantly, we’ve put our financial and technical backing behind Lucee, the F/OSS CFML platform. In our opinion, Lucee is the most exciting and energetic force in the CFML world. We think it’s the future of CFML, and we’re excited to watch it grow, and to be a part of that growth with our Lucee-centered products and services.

Adobe CF 10 year roadmap, CF Summit support

What are you looking forward to / did you enjoy at CFObjective?

Looking forward to more of the defining characteristic of cf.Objective()--namely, that it’s the most advanced CFML conference in existence. In-depth sessions about the latest topics, trends and tooling in web software development. It’s also a great time for the worldwide Lucee team to spend some in-person time together