Async Without Tears: Modern Concurrency for CFML Developers Using BoxLang

Concurrency has always existed in CFML, but it was rarely approachable, safe, or enjoyable. Threads were hard to manage, difficult to debug, and often avoided altogether. With BoxLang, concurrency becomes a first-class, readable, and production-ready capability built on modern JVM foundations like virtual threads and structured concurrency.

This talk walks CFML developers through the mental model shift from blocking request execution to async pipelines in BoxLang. Using familiar CFML-style examples, we’ll incrementally evolve real code into safe, parallel, and observable async workflows. Along the way, we’ll explore how async is not just a performance tool, but a requirement for modern architectures—including AI integrations.

Target Audience

CFML developers migrating to BoxLang, backend engineers modernizing legacy applications, and teams integrating APIs or AI services.

Level of expertise

Intermediate