Tridib Roy Chowdhury talks about “The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

The state of CF

22 years old and it continues to do well

Over last 8 years it is not dying

Annual % growth 6-7%$

New releases every two years

18 quarters beat our sales goals

Room for bigger goals

What is CF?

A glue that holds many systems together

API glue

Adobe API manager - faster and the least memory of any API manager

Internal Adobe survey

80% of CFers believe it is the fastest developer language

78% of CFers have built new apps this year

CF Builder is most used IDE (31%), beating Sublime Text (22%)

Improving speed and fixing bugs

Speed of CF apps, security

70-80% of CF apps are external facing vs intranet apps

CF 2018

Why takes users a long time to upgrade to latest version

Backwards compatibility good

Improve performance without CFML code changes in old apps

Performance monitor

Show exact line of CF code or SQL that is causing problem

auto tuning - Make tuning more data based decision

AI and ML methods

Historical performance data

Code profiler

Distributed caching built in and still works with 3rd party cache (plug in)

OOPS enhancements to lists etc

Parallel operations

X.0 release

Testing

customer code

Reducing false positives

Automating QA

No automated upgrade wizard - because have to do QA anyway

Adobe Senior leadership team look at outstanding bug list every 2 weeks

Keep prior promises on existing features

Security

no day zero issues for over 4 years

But important that you install security patches as they come out

Move to the cloud has made security even more important (Adobe is one of the largest cloud companies)

Dedicated CF security team monitoring worldwide

CF Security czar

A priority for all developers

All engineers are certified on security best practices

3rd party security audit of new releases of CF

Lockdown guide

Docker containerization official version released

Metered Licensing

His take on the future of CF.

CF Summit East and West.

Growing

Young CFers

Adobe CF education edition

Adobe program to sponsor colleges to teach web dev using CFML

Video CF training

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

Mobile

Cloud

AI, ML

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Wed April 25th in Washington DC

Celebrate great CF customer stories

CF community portal

Mentioned in this episode

White paper on API manager performance (PDF)

“In our tests, when using a lightweight web-service, a single node of API Manager served 500 concurrent users at the rate of 22,000 requests per second, with a latency of less than 14 milliseconds. A single node of API Manager, can therefore, serve close to 2 billion requests per day. A cluster of API Manager Nodes can handle an even higher volume of traffic or it can lower the latency.”

Adobe bug tracker 

Approx Size of CF test code base for regression testing new CF releases is currently around 700k lines of code in the Adobe test code base. This keeps on increasing with every release.

Research report CF is most secure entreprise development system

CVE details specifies the number of critical vulnerabilities. In comparison with other languages.

http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/74/PHP.html

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/1526/SUN-JRE.html?vendor_id=5

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/19117/Oracle-JRE.html?vendor_id=93

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/887/Apache-Tomcat.html?vendor_id=45

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/2002/Microsoft-.net-Framework.html?vendor_id=26

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-Rails.html?vendor_id=12043