Maximizing your velocity as a CFML developer takes more than just a great local development environment. Today, you need DevOps capabilities that allow you to rapidly provision staging and QA environments, and push to production when ready. You want to dynamically provision data services, and view app metrics and logs in real-time for instant feedback.

Cloud Foundry is the platform that gives you these capabilities. Cloud Foundry gives you a very short trip from writing new code to getting user feedback on the code, making you faster and more awesome.

We’ll look at the Heroku Buildpack for CommandBox developed by OrtusSolutions, and how it can be leveraged to deploy your CFML applications into Cloud Foundry as managed, containerized workloads.

Source control is the cornerstone of any substantial codebase, but managing incoming changes and getting them out the door can be complicated, time consuming, and frustrating. In git, where branching is a first-class operation, we'll look at tried-and-true strategies to manage code changes, and see how those strategies align with business processes and release cycles.

Working with one team is tough enough, but with multiple teams, in multiple timezones, countries, different programming languages, cfml, php and node things get even more complex. I have worked in this environment, working through some tough lessons, and learning a lot on the way.

Join me as I tell you a few stories, and give you some strategies for dealing with your project, no matter how small, or big and complex it is.

In this session we will talk about the history of NGINX and NGINX Plus and the role it has played in the development of the internet.

We will discuss some of the most recent changes and additions to the popular software project and touch base on some planned feature enhancements coming in the next months,

In this session we will introduce you to the theory of Behavior Driven Development and then spin you around for a real-world implementation using TestBox, integration testing and the integrated library. All code will be available for you at this repository: https://github.com/elpete/integrated-workshop.

When people hear the word NGINX, they usually associate the open source platform for its popular adoption as an HTTP web server or load balancer. What a lot of people don't know is the vast amount of powerful features contained in the platform that can be used to build an HTTP caching layer and why NGINX is often used as a framework to build powerful, scalable and highly available content delivery networks. In this talk we will dive into each unique NGINX directive and its configuration options that are available. We will show different architectural approaches that can be used to build a highly available HTTP content cache layer. We will show various other NGINX configurations that can be critical to your NGINX deployment. Walking away from this presentation, attendees will have the knowledge required to configure basic and advanced caching of their NGINX servers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is well known to developers for providing a vast army of on-demand servers on which you can run anything, including CFML or Node.js. AWS offers a whole lot more than servers in the cloud, though. AWS is comprised of over 40 services which enable powerful Web/mobile application functionality, and you can tap into nearly all of them using your favorite programming language. With only a few lines of code, you get powerful, hugely scalable functionality that would otherwise be near-impossible to build yourself. Examples will be in CFML, Node.js, and Python.

In this session, you'll learn to:

• Get super fast, infinitely scalable file storage with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Distribute static assets globally with a powerful content distribution network (CDN), CloudFront
• Invoke on-demand Node.js microservices through AWS Lambda
• Utilize a high-throughput NoSQL datastore with DynamoDB
• Plan for common problems when dealing with cloud service providers

There are various tools and utilities which ship with ColdFusion and tend to be ignored when tuning is needed, also when trouble strikes. Server Monitor, for instance, is very powerful when used correctly. This practical session will show how to get the best from these powerful, built-in tools.

The term Agile has become really popular for software development. I am sure at this point you are either using some sort of agile methodology, or are considering using one (or at least you have heard of one!). The truth is that Agile is a set of powerful methodologies for delivering value in knowledge based projects. But are you really as Agile as you think? Join this session and learn about key agile metrics that will help you understand how agile you really are (or aren’t).

Themes are new in ContentBox 3, getting big updates from Layouts in earlier versions.

Components of a Theme
Learn about the different components of a Theme, and how to customize and use them. Layouts, Views, Templates, Widgets & Modules.

Themes not Layouts
Themes is our new mantra. We have transitioned layouts to what we now call ContentBox Themes. They have been revamped to support ColdBox 4.

New Theme.cfc
The theme descriptor CFC is now named Theme.cfc. Backwards compatibility still remains, but now the new descriptor will provide a nice way for editors and tools to target.

Theme Setting Groups + Help
You can now create theme setting groups in the theme descriptor Theme.cfc and the new admin UI will present them in a categorized and ordered format. This is a great way to visualize theme settings. You now have the ability to add notes and help in the form of modals, all built from the Theme.cfc

Theme Modules
Themes can now include ContentBox modules in a new folder convention called modules. This allows you to ship your theme with 1 or a billion modules.

New Theme Events
The theme life-cycle now presents several new events: cbadmin_preThemeSettingsSave, cbadmin_postThemeSettingsSave, cbadmin_onThemeSettings, cbadmin_onThemeInfo

And as much as we can fit into the session. If you are looking for more in depth ContentBox learning. Sign up for the Free Content Workshop on Wednesday the 26th of April.

Come discover the wonderful world of ColdFusion ORM. We will demystify this dragon and slay it with some awesome pink unicorn goodness. After this session, you will never look at ORM as a nasty big dragon, but a wonderful animal of nature!

The task of securing your large code bases from vulnerabilities can be an overwhelming and time consuming task. Many developers don't know where to start, and never do. This session will arm you with an approach slaying those legacy security vulnerabilities in your CFML code. You will also learn about several vulnerabilities and things to look out for as you develop new code.

In this session, we will review Ortus DataBoss: An ORM Dynamic Administrator. We will leverage this tool to create and even manage complex ORM applications with ease. Stop trying to figure everything out with ColdFusion ORM, DataBoss will do the heavy lifting for you.

Very often programmers are using common CFML knowledge and then wonder, why a script is so slow. The approach to tune the code is not always intuitive and sometimes, one has to take different approaches to solve a problem in order for the task to be executed with the best possible performance. In this session we will take a look at a given task and how to performance tune it step by step. Each iteration will be described in detail and the individual steps will be questioned and explained. The audience can participate in the talk as the code is running live.

For years I've watched people try to tame "server problems" with a focus on their code, their SQL, the jvm, and so on. Yet often it turns out that the root cause is actually unexpected load. And that load may be from things you never expected (automated), at volumes you never expected.   I've found folks with as much as 80% of their web traffic to be such unexpected automated traffic! Worse, there are characteristics of such automated visits that may actually have MORE IMPACT than "real users": for instance, did you know they create a new session/client variables, and run session startup code, for each page they visit?!

The good news is there are solutions to better manage (or simply block) such automated requests which may already exist in your environment, and tools you may consider (some free, some commercial) which can be easily implemented. There are even SAAS solutions that could help alleviate such problems with just a single tiny change in your environment!  You may also want to consider some admin configuration options related to sessions and/or client variables, as well as reconsider some coding choices in your session startup code.

In this session, veteran server troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will guide a more detailed review of the issues above, including how to identify such traffic, more on these specific impacts, and most important identifying the solutions along with their pros and cons. He has helped shops achieve dramatic reductions in impact from such automated requests, resulting in greater server stability and performance.