064 Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak with Elishia Dvorak

Elishia Dvorak talks about “ Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes API Manager REST SOAP Created in CF or any other language What it is Throttling, metering SLA Authorization OLOF Analytics Versioning Lifecycle management Notifications Debugging APIs Cluttering Why use it Business value You need to manage you APIs - either spend time building yourself or buy Security GDPR Internet of Things Need to be upto date on security issues Costs - part of CF Enterprise A separate product - its own installer Very fast deployment of CF built APIs New in CF 2016 Changes in CF 2018 release (Ether) Separate later release after GA release of CF 2018 A game changer - non-CFers are using it 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? It is much bigger now Two tracks Free CF 2018 release and roadmap Both government and commercial CF developers are welcome Pre-early bird on CF Summit West $99 Call for speakers, including new speakers Mentioned in this episode Adobe API manager CF Alive episode How to implement Adobe's API Manager (with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API's) with Brian Sappey Episode All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2018 ColdFusion with Kishore Balakrishnan Charlie’s forum post about “CF 2016 It Works!”  “I'm not aware of any issues with CF2016 specifically, affecting some large percentage of folks moving to it, which should lead someone to conclude that they should not move to CF2016” Adobe roadshows CF Summit East Conference event  CF Summit West Las Oct 1-3 Hardrock  The Adobe ColdFusion portal Listen to the Audio Bio Elishia Dvorak Elishia Dvorak Technical marketing manager for ColdFusion and e-learning products. She started out as a CF developer. Interview transcript Michaela:         Welcome back to the show. Today I'm talking with Elishia Dvorak. And we're going to talk about the API manager that came out in ColdFusion 2016 and its being updated for ColdFusion 2018. And if you haven't come across that, we'll look at what is and why you'd want to use it? What the business case for is? And very excitingly, it's actually attracting new people who aren't even ColdFusion developers currently to use cold fusion because of it. So welcome Elishia. Elishia:            Thank you and hello everyone. Michaela:         And if you don't know, she is the Technical Marketing Manager for Adobe ColdFusion. and also there e-learning products. And she actually started out as a ColdFusion developer quite a few years ago. Elishia:            That's right and thanks for the introduction. I did start out years and years ago as a ColdFusion developer for a short stint but I did spend quite a lot of time and most of my years in my career doing support and account management for the larger architectures, so that's where most of my experience is and really architecting solutions and troubleshooting a problem. 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. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.