Ben & Ryan Show - Adobe ColdFusion 2025 with Mark Takata

Ben and Ryan Show Episode 4 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by Senior Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist, Mark Takata, to talk about the upcoming Adobe ColdFusion 2025 release. This episode is packed with surprise announcements. Adobe ColdFusion 2025 • A lot of performance improvements • Big upgrade to charting – amazing themes are coming out of the box • Spreadsheet improvements Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Beta • Beta coming soon • Beta will have deep dive webinars about all features given by engineers who built them • Surprise bug bounty announced • Beta will be supported on xByte servers and we are already experienced supporting it • It will be in 2 parts – first part early December – second part early January ColdFusion Subscriptions • Coming in 2025 • Last Adobe product to move to subscription • ETLA is already a “subscription” and most popular way to get ColdFusion • Allows Adobe to launch more features more frequently Favorite new 2025 Feature from Mark and Ben • CSV Read/Write Processing • Streaming of CSV processing When to upgrade code • Your old code is not as good as your more recent code • Risk of updating code • Takes longer to code outside of CF • Regrets of code changes away from CF • Opportunity cost of rewriting code Extras from Adobe ColdFusion • $250,000 in licensed libraries • Support • VIP experience – customer-specific hotfixes Ways to test ColfFusion • TryCF • CF Fiddle Surprise Announcement • Hackathon coming to Adobe CF • Possible hackathon at Summit? • Grassroots evangelism – do hackathons and show off ColdFusion Links mentioned in the video • Previous Mark Podcast - https://youtu.be/_C-EVrwEcY8 • Carahsoft 2025 Preview Link - https://www.carahsoft.com/learn/event/62630-adobe-coldfusion-unveiling-2025-features-and-future-roadmap-insights • TryCF - https://trycf.com/ • CF Fiddle - https://cffiddle.org/