The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright) with Tridib Roy Chowdhury

065 Tridib Roy Chowdhury talks about “The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
https://teratech.com/podcast/future-of-coldfusion-it-is-bright-tridib-roy-chowdhury/
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
AI and ML methods
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
Metered Licensing
His take on the future of CF.
CF Summit East and West.
growing
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?
Mobile
Cloud
AI, ML
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
White paper on API manager performance (PDF)
“In our tests, when using a lightweight web-service, a single node of API Manager served 500 concurrent users at the rate of 22,000 requests per second, with a latency of less than 14 milliseconds. A single node of API Manager, can therefore, serve close to 2 billion requests per day. A cluster of API Manager Nodes can handle an even higher volume of traffic or it can lower the latency.”
Adobe bug tracker 
Approx Size of CF test code base for regression testing new CF releases is currently around 700k lines of code in the Adobe test code base. This keeps on increasing with every release.
Research report CF is most secure entreprise development system
CVE details specifies the number of critical vulnerabilities. In comparison with other languages.
http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/74/PHP.html
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/1526/SUN-JRE.html?vendor_id=5
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/19117/Oracle-JRE.html?vendor_id=93
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/887/Apache-Tomcat.html?vendor_id=45
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/2002/Microsoft-.net-Framework.html?vendor_id=26
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-Rails.html?vendor_id=12043
CF Alive episode on CF Summit East
CF Alive episodes on API manager
David Tattersall talks about “Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor)”
Elishia Dvorak talks about “ Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak”
CF community portal
CF Docker containerization official version
The official version will be released in April
CF Docker metered licensing cost
The cost details will be released in April
“Security Czar” for the Adobe ColdFusion Team 
Adobe ColdFusion education edition
Adobe ColdFusion Video training 
Adobe program to sponsor colleges to teach web development using CFML
“We have a course curriculum for colleges which are interested in teaching CF. Also we are offering free licenses for students and teachers under the Education program for teaching purposes.”
the Education initiative can be found at this link
CF Summit East