VueJS 101 for CFML Devs I’ve been stumbling across a fair few developers recently who like the idea of using VueJS, but are not sure how to get started. VueJS can be used to build whole applications, but sometimes the … Read More
Author Archives: Tom King
Testing and Improving Database Performance Using FRAPI
Testing and Improving Database Performance Using FRAPI So the other day, I spotted a MySQL query (InnoDB, 5.27 if you’re interested) which was feeling non-performant. I should also point out, that SQL and testing and improving database performance are really … Read More
Revisiting CFML Operators In Lucee
Revisiting CFML Operators In Lucee Operators are ubiquitous. As developers, we use them every day, and maybe even in every line of code. Why is it then, I never seem to find the time to revisit these language essentials? Perhaps … Read More
Watermarking PDFs In Lucee 5.3.7 Without Using CFPDF
Watermarking PDFs In Lucee 5.3.7 Without using CFPDF Recently, I’ve needed to add a watermark to PDFs but struggled with Lucee’s current implementation in 5.3.x.. Watermarking PDFs In Lucee 5.3.7 without using CFPDF is usually pretty straightforward, via <code> <cfpdf action=”addwatermark” … Read More
Basic Load Testing With Locust
Basic load testing with Locust No-one likes to get caught out with scaling issues. Your app or site goes viral, or you simply get a tonne of unexpected traffic through a favourable blog post, and without some preparation, all hell … Read More
ColdFusion and Microservices
The all-new Adobe ColdFusion 2021 has just been released with dozens of features introduced to boost efficiency, security, scalability, language improvement, in addition to much newer instruments for performance monitoring and profiling. A substantial focus of CF2021 is support of … Read More
Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Versus Lucee
Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee are two leading web application development tools based on CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) code. Adobe ColdFusion was initially developed to connect HTML and the database easily. With the release of Adobe ColdFusion 2018, a full-blown scripting language … Read More
Performance Issue With Redis Session Management On Adobe ColdFusion Servers With FusionReactor Or Adobe Performance Monitoring Toolset (PMT)
Introduction We recently had a performance issue with Redis session management in FusionReactor where a user saw a high CPU when running FusionReactor reported to our technical support team. Upon investigating the issue, we found this was due to both … Read More
How To Retain FusionReactor Logs In Docker Environment
When running in a docker based environment it can be difficult to retain the logs for your application and for the monitoring tools that you use. To overcome this there are several options that you can use: An external platform … Read More
How To Secure FusionReactor And JSP Applications In Tomcat Using LDAP
Overview FusionReactor provides different types of user accounts (Administrators/Manager/Observer), however, if you would like to restrict access to FusionReactor for individual users, you can do this via LDAP authentication. This blog post will guide you through configuring tomcat to use … Read More
