Gert Franz talks about "Performance Tuning and the Future of Lucee" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst.

Gert is also an upcoming speaker for the Into The Box Conference, where he will talk about how to make CFML fast.

"Knowing basic things or very general things about the application or the CFML engine per se is very important so that you know that you're not using certain things excessively because otherwise, it's no wonder that your code only responds in two or three seconds." - Gert Franz



Show notes

Performance tuning

Common techniques for programming

Importance of basic response time on pages

Basic execution time

ColdFusion code tweaks

Lucee, way ahead in terms of performance

Into The Box Conference

Mentioned in this episode

Railo

Lucee

CF Camp 2016

CF Sharepoint

Into The Box Conference 

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Bio

Gert Franz

Gert Franz is the CTO of Rasia GmbH. He was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst.

Links

Rasia IO

LinkedIn

Interview Transcript

Michaela Light:                  Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Gert Franz from Rasia and he did a lot of work on Railo and Lucee, the CFML open source engine. He's talking at the Into the Box Conference. What's your topic, Gert?

Gert Franz:                          I don't even know how I named it but it's actually about performance tuning step by step. Showing in iterations how to get from a very high, I'm not saying the numbers now, from a very high number of seconds to a very low number of seconds, with different iterations where you avoid certain things in your programming and then you just use common techniques and I'll explain the details why things are good and why you shouldn't use things.

Michaela Light:                  That is great. You're going to help people speed up their code and learn some things to avoid and things to do better?

Gert Franz:                          Hopefully. Everyone has their tricks and tips and how they are improving the performance of their code but this came out of an assignment from a client and while I was doing the iterations I always had to prove that I did something. I told him, "Okay, what I'm going to do is I'm going to create iterations of the code," and I'm explaining each of those. He said, "Oh, that's fantastic. Why don't you give a talk about this." I go, "Well that was my idea in the first place." I was asking him for permission to do this.

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Raymond Camden talks about "Kick Your Server to the Curb and Go Serverless" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Raymond is a developer advocate for IBM. His work focuses on LoopBack, API Connect, serverless, hybrid mobile development, Node.js, HTML5, and web standards in general. He's a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics.

"I look at my history of building websites of ColdFusion, and I see a lot of cases where I could have, and not all the time, but I could have replaced it with something a little bit simpler, like Serverless." - Raymond Camden

Show notes

OpenWhisk

Serverless

REST service

Mentioned in this episode

OpenWhisk

Serverless 

My Cloud 

Node.js 

REST

Bluemix

Watson services 

IBM 

Apache

PhoneGap 

Lucee CFML 

CommandBox 

025 Why Programming in Node is so Powerful (how CFers can learn), with Ray Camden

073 Progressive Web Apps (A Gentle Intro for CFers who are scared of PWAs) with Ray Camden

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Bios

Raymond Camden

Raymond is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box  ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about going Serverless.

Links

Blog

Twitter

Interview transcript

Michaela Light:                 Welcome back to The Box interviews. I'm here with Ray Camden, developer advocate for IBM, and a long time fan of ColdFusion, and he's speaking on, what are you speaking on, Ray? It sounded like a very interesting topic about OpenWhisk.

Raymond Camden:          Yeah. So I'm speaking about Serverless with Apache OpenWhisk, which is a project that IBM is heavily involved with, as well.

Michaela Light:                  And for those who haven't understood what OpenWhisk is, because it sounds like, from what I've read, it could do a number of things. Some of which are incredibly powerful. Ray, what exactly is it?

Raymond Camden:          Let me back up and talk about Serverless first, because I kind of avoided the topic for a while myself, because I knew the name was kind of stupid, and even more so than My Cloud, you know, Serverless, I knew, was the exact opposite, unless they were running on imaginary numbers, or something, but the best way to think of it is function as a service.

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Brad Wood, Luis Majano, and Gavin Pickin talk about "First Look into the Into The Box Conference" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Brad, Luis and Gavin are all speakers of the Into The Box Conference. In this episode, we are going to find out what exactly is the conference about; if there are ColdFusion secrets to come out, and more.

Brad and Luis are speakers for the upcoming Into The Box  ColdFusion Conference. Brad will talk about Converting Legacy Apps into Modern MVC, CommandBox Server Minions, Box Microservices and Ortus Keynote. Luis' topics in the conference are Integration Development, Slaying the ORM Dragons with CBORM, and Ortus Keynote.

"The whole conference is about empowering ColdFusion developers to modernize themselves. Also take a look at a job that was a great companion. We do it day in and day out as well. Uh huge ecosystems, so how to teach and showcase the integration pieces between CFML and Java and we do this a lot in everything that we do. A lot of techniques for developers. A lot of business processes. Continuous integration processes. Testing processes, which a lot of developers hate. This is something that's very big for us. You'll see that from the sessions, there's a big gamut of coverage." - Luis Majano

Show notes

Showcasing processes of CF developers

Modernizing CF dev practices

New applications

Adapting a competitive edge

Architecture and business processes

Integration of ColdFusion

Date of the Into The Box Conference

Who are the speakers at the conference

Mentioned in this episode

Into The Box 

Java 

CFML

Ortus

REST

Lucee

TeraTech

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Bios

Brad Wood

Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors.

Brad has been programming ColdFusion since 2001 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Brad is the ColdBox Platform developer advocate at Ortus Solutions and lead developer of the CommandBox CLI.

Luis Majano

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer born in El Salvador and is the president of Ortus Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in web development, architecture and professional open source support and services. His background includes over 17 years of software development experience, architecture, and system design.

He is the creator of the ColdBox MVC Platform, ContentBox Modular CMS, CommandBox CLI and many more open source projects. He lives in Texas with his beautiful wife Veronica, baby girl Alexia and baby boy Lucas! You can read his blog and technology musings at https://www.luismajano.com.

Gavin Pickin

Gavin Pickin – Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the university of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has lead teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML CSS JavaScript through to ColdFusion MySQL and server administration.

Links

Into The Box 

Java 

CFML

Ortus

REST

Lucee

Interview transcript

Michaela Light:                  Here with Brad, Luis, and Gavin, all from Into The Box Conference, and I am going to find out exactly what this conference is all about. I think there's some ColdFusion secrets gonna come out. I can read some in that white board behind you guys so it's not too secret. Oh, he's covering it up now. All right, Luis. Into The Box, who is this for? Someone's never heard of this conference,

Giancarlo Gomez talks about “Brief Introduction To Websockets” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Giancarlo is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box  ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about WebSockets in CFML.

In his ITB talk, he plans to get into some CF Websockets code. Reviews a couple of concept apps and how to build them using WebSockets. Creates a live dashboard, a collaborating form, a little game and maybe the good old chat. Discuss some tips and tricks to help keep them up and running thru several failure points.

"With WebSockets, when the client connects, it creates a bi-directional connection that the server not only knows that the client is there, but the client also knows that the server is connected and he can send data back and forth. Now when something triggers on the server, through that connection, that message can be sent in real time to not only one, but multiple connected clients that are set to receive that data." - Giancarlo Gomez



Show notes

Why CF Websockets is way more than just a chat client

How CF Websockets are better than Ajax

CF 10, 11 and 2016 differences in Websocket features and licensing

Lucee CFML Websockets using SocketId open source version

Why adding push notifications live on your website is so powerful

 

Mentioned in this episode

CrossTrackr

ColdFusion 10

ColdFusion 11 

Pusher

PubNub

Socket.io open source websockets

PubSub 

Lucee open source CFML

South Florida ColdFusion User Group

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Bio

Giancarlo Gomez

Giancarlo Gomez is a full-stack developer with over 17 years experience with various languages, technologies and a passion to continue to learn. He has been a designer, developer and project lead for several companies stateside and can even say this path took him across the pond years back for a piece of software he wrote that required installation and configuration. The internet was much slower back then and a flight was required. He is the owner/lead developer of Fuse Developments, Inc. established in 2004, his consulting business specializing in web and mobile development and CrossTrackr, Inc., a SaaS for the CrossFit community, targeted towards athletes and gym owners providing real-time insight into athletic progress and health metrics.

Links

Twitter

GitHub

Giancarlogomez.com

Interview transcript

Michaela Light:                  Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Giancarlo Gomez- I think I'm pronouncing your name right there? Also he's known as JC, which is a lot easier to pronounce. And he is the co-manager of the South Florida ColdFusion Users Group, which actually is now a virtual user group. Anyone in the world can join in there; it's through Meetup. And he is not only a dad and a husband, but ... Web developer, musician, he owns Fuse Developments, and he created CrossTrackr, in case you do CrossFit and want to track how well you're doing. So welcome, JC.

Giancarlo G:                      Hello, Michael, thank you. Thank you for having me.

Michaela Light:                  So I know you're speaking at the upcoming Into The Box Conference and you're talking about WebSockets and ... Tell us a bit about that. First of all, maybe we'd better back up a bit. What the heck is a "WebSocket," in case people have never used it? I mean, I know it's been in ColdFusion for a few versions now, but that doesn't mean people even know it exists.

Giancarlo G:                      A WebSocket is the ability to send real-time information back and forth between the server and the connected client, with very little to almost no lag. Rather than the user having to poll the server or look for information from the server, the server immediately, once it knows it has information that it can send to subscribed clients, it will do it in real time.

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