065 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.

Episode highlights

• 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
• 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
• His take on the future of CF.
• CF Summit East and West.
• 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?
• 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

Bio

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.

Originally published at teratech.com on March 28, 2018.