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066 The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright) with Tridib Roy Chowdhury
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
CF Alive episode on CF Summit East
CF Alive episodes on API manager
David Tattersall talks about “Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor)”
Elishia Dvorak talks about “ Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak”
CF community portal
CF Docker containerization official version
The official version will be released in April
CF Docker metered licensing cost
The cost details will be released in April
"Security Czar" for the Adobe ColdFusion Team
Adobe ColdFusion education edition
Adobe ColdFusion Video training
Adobe program to sponsor colleges to teach web development using CFML
“We have a course curriculum for colleges which are interested in teaching CF. Also we are offering free licenses for students and teachers under the Education program for teaching purposes.”
the Education initiative can be found at this link
CF Summit East
CF Summit West
Listen to the Audio
Bio
Tridib Roy Chowdhury
Tridib Roy Chowdhury is the G.M. and Sr. Director of Products at Adobe Systems and is responsible for ColdFusion.
Over the last 10 years at Adobe, he has built a global team consisting of engineers, product and data architects, product managers, product marketers, experience designers and sales.
Tridib has been driving data-driven decision making much before it was fashionable.
Interview Transcript
Michaela: Welcome back to the show. And today, I've got Tridib Roy Chowdhury. He's the general manager and senior director of product Adobe systems. He's the ultimate man responsible for ColdFusion. Got an enormous team working for him. And we're gonna talk today about the state of ColdFusion, what we can look forward to with ColdFusion 2018 that's coming out this year. And also his take on the future of ColdFusion and things that Adobe's doing there. So welcome Tridib.
Tridib: Thanks, how are you?
Michaela: Doing great. So I know that you've been Adobe for over ten years. You've built a team of engineers, and architects, project managers, sales, designers. You've got a whole team there. And I know also that you've been moving to having more data driven decisions at Adobe. So exciting stuff. So I am very interested to ask you about what your take is on the current state of ColdFusion.
Tridib: So you know like that's going to start a little bit with how I see the business as it stands right now. So now like we are a 22-year old product. And it continues to amaze me how well we continue to do on the business site.
Read more
And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.
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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
CF Alive episode on CF Summit East
CF Alive episodes on API manager
David Tattersall talks about “Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor)”
Elishia Dvorak talks about “ Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak”
CF community portal
CF Docker containerization official version
The official version will be released in April
CF Docker metered licensing cost
The cost details will be released in April
"Security Czar" for the Adobe ColdFusion Team
Adobe ColdFusion education edition
Adobe ColdFusion Video training
Adobe program to sponsor colleges to teach web development using CFML
“We have a course curriculum for colleges which are interested in teaching CF. Also we are offering free licenses for students and teachers under the Education program for teaching purposes.”
the Education initiative can be found at this link
CF Summit East
CF Summit West
Listen to the Audio
Bio
Tridib Roy Chowdhury
Tridib Roy Chowdhury is the G.M. and Sr. Director of Products at Adobe Systems and is responsible for ColdFusion.
Over the last 10 years at Adobe, he has built a global team consisting of engineers, product and data architects, product managers, product marketers, experience designers and sales.
Tridib has been driving data-driven decision making much before it was fashionable.
Interview Transcript
Michaela: Welcome back to the show. And today, I've got Tridib Roy Chowdhury. He's the general manager and senior director of product Adobe systems. He's the ultimate man responsible for ColdFusion. Got an enormous team working for him. And we're gonna talk today about the state of ColdFusion, what we can look forward to with ColdFusion 2018 that's coming out this year. And also his take on the future of ColdFusion and things that Adobe's doing there. So welcome Tridib.
Tridib: Thanks, how are you?
Michaela: Doing great. So I know that you've been Adobe for over ten years. You've built a team of engineers, and architects, project managers, sales, designers. You've got a whole team there. And I know also that you've been moving to having more data driven decisions at Adobe. So exciting stuff. So I am very interested to ask you about what your take is on the current state of ColdFusion.
Tridib: So you know like that's going to start a little bit with how I see the business as it stands right now. So now like we are a 22-year old product. And it continues to amaze me how well we continue to do on the business site.
Read more
And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.