062 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins

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Mike Collins talks about “Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

In this session, we will answer common questions around deploying applications across multiple JVM instances, servers or containers.  How many instances, servers or containers do you really need? What happens when an instance goes down? What is the best way to manage sessions? We will look at key performance metrics and session management strategies to increase your uptime and improve your end-users overall experience. Session topics will include: Using Local and Remote Web Servers, Load Balancing (Hardware and Software based), Tomcat Connector Features, Understanding ColdFusion Clustering, Using Docker Containers and Orchestration, Using Session Management Strategies, API Based Applications, Load Testing Applications and Security and Monitoring.  We will have several demonstrations along the way.

Episode highlights
Why CF scaling matters
Faster site
Reliable – no single point of failure
Seamless sessions between servers in a cluster – esp ecom
What are common scaling issues
How much JVM memory to allocate
Garbage collection settings
Connector best practices, connector admin manager → key metric
Plan for alerts and snapshots
Deploying applications across multiple JVM instances, servers or containers.  
How many instances, servers or containers do you really need?  
What happens when an instance goes down?  
What is the best way to manage sessions?
Key performance metrics and session management strategies to increase your uptime and improve your end-users overall experience.
Server Sizing
CPU
Memory
Using Local and Remote Web Servers
Load Balancing (Hardware and Software based)
Tomcat Connector Features
Understanding ColdFusion Clustering
Using Docker Containers and Orchestration
Using Session Management Strategies
API Based Applications
Microservices
Load Testing Applications and Security and Monitoring.  
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 East?
Mentioned in this episode
EHcache
Redis
CF Server monitor
FusionReactor
Sticky Sessions
Round Robin
F5 load balancer
Kubernetes (container orchestration)
JMeter load testing
CF Summit East