043 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 Michaela Light. Show notes 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 Adobe ColdFusion (2018 Release) Public Beta Related Docker containerization official version Docker containerization metered licensing cost The only form on cloud pricing that is available currently on AWS where you can pay by the hour - They will soon have CF 2018 on AWS too. Why You Should Attend CF Summit 2018 Listen to the Audio   Bio Rakshith Naresh Rakshith Naresh senior product manager for ColdFusion at Adobe. He decides the future direction of CF there. Links Twitter  LinkedIn Adobe Interview Transcript Michael:          Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Rakshith Naresh. I hope I'm saying your name right there. I had to practice it several times. Rakshith:         [Crosstalk] [00:09] Michael:          Excellent. He's the Senior Product Manager for ColdFusion Adobe, and he's the guy who decides the future direction of ColdFusion there. And in today's episode, we're going to be looking at the ColdFusion 2018 roadmap that they're working on, and be released in a few weeks’ time on the Adobe site. So, we're going to start off by looking at how ColdFusion has changed in the last few versions, and what particular features they're focusing on for ColdFusion 2018 that's going to be released next year. And also, we’re going to look at how they decide what features to add, and the long term commitment of Adobe to ColdFusion. And if I can squeeze Sir Rakshith’s binds back we'll find out how to ColdFusion sales are going. So, welcome Rakshith. Rakshith:         Thanks a lot Michael, it's great chance to be on this podcast. Michael:          So, how has ColdFusion changed over the last few versions? I think you have a slide you want to share with us, show some detail on that. Rakshith:         Absolutely, so in fact, we've had a transformation over the last few releases. [Inaudible] want to go for us Michael has been to make sure that ColdFusion is the most stable, and productive back in out there for any kind of business logic that you can host, is still across the host of bind sight technologies. Read more   And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. 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