042 Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details, with Rakshith Naresh

Rakshith Naresh talks about “Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michael Smith.

Episode highlights

How has CF changed over the last few versions

API management platform

Docker container – official images will be available by end of Q3 2017
+ Redhat openshift platform
What features are you focusing on CF 2018
Performance
New Performance Management Suite
Runtime faster
Distributed caching (on separate server in your cluster)
ASync programming
Security
Automated lockdown
CF has the least number of issues of any App dev platform
No Zero Day issues over the last 4 years (other languages have had them!)
Language
OO better inheritance including interface inheritance
Pre-alpha release will be announced on blogs.coldfusion.com
PDF better conversion
How do you decide what features to add?
What is the long term commitment of Adobe to ColdFusion?
How are ColdFusion sales going for Adobe?
Sales are growing 12% per year
The biggest revenue for CF sales was this year
Hence Adobe continues to invest in CF
5 years of support plus 2 years extended support
CF 2016 will have full support through 2021. Extended support through 2023
CF 2018 will have full support through 2023. Extended support through 2025
Security hotfixes are provided in full support period
Why are you proud to use CF?
He has been on the CF team for 11 years (during CF 8 build as engineer)
CF is critical to 76% of our customers in their tech
70% of Fortune 100 companies use CF
50% of Fortune 500 companies use CF
WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?
New features in CF 2018
CF Summit support
Large customer and analyst (Gartner and Forrester) conversations
Changing the perception of CF as being a modern and alive technology
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?
500+ attendees – was sold out last year

Mentioned in this episode

Adobe ColdFusion 2018 roadmap
Adobe ColdFusion open buglist
Elishia CF Summit episode
Redhat openshift container platform – a container application platform that brings docker and Kubernetes to the enterprise
CF Summit
API management platform
Docker containers