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Cloud Experts Unleashed
by xByte Cloud
Interviews with some of the experts in cloud and hosting industry. Our guests are on the front lines actually doing the work and giving you real world context.
Episodes
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Ben & Ryan Show - Bugs and Stuff
Ben & Ryan Show Episode 24 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown go guest-free and take the opportunity to dive into ColdFusion bugs, guinea pig maintenance, and their latest experiments in app building and AI usage.They kick things off with some light banter, guinea pig parenting...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Vibe Coding
Ben & Ryan Show Episode 23 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by Mark Takata, Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe ColdFusion, to dive deep into the evolving world of "vibe coding" and how AI is transforming development workflows. The trio explore the tools, mental...
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Ben & Ryan Show - BoxLang
Ben & Ryan Show Episode 22 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown sit down with Luis Majano and Daniel Garcia from Ortus Solutions to dive deep into BoxLang, the dynamic new language for the JVM. From modular design to multi-runtime capabilities and modern tooling, this conversation...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Adobe ColdFusion Hackathon
In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by guests Ray Camden and Wade Bachelder to break down their experiences at the recent Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Hackathon. Together, they dive into the projects, challenges, bugs, and lessons learned while exploring new CFML features…
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Ben & Ryan Show - wheels.dev
In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by Peter Amiri, the current maintainer of the Wheels framework (formerly CF Wheels), to discuss its evolution and future. They dive into the history of the ColdFusion-based framework, its comparison with other MVC options, and how…
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Ben & Ryan Show - Catching Up
Ben & Ryan Show Episode 19 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown catch up after a short hiatus with a wide-ranging, unscripted conversation covering everything from the latest ColdFusion trends to personal experiments with AI and vibe coding. With no guest this time, it's a…
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Ben & Ryan Show - ColdFusion Custom UDFs
Ben & Ryan Show Episode 18 In this episode, your hosts, Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown, are joined by longtime ColdFusion developer James Moberg, CTO of Sunstar Media, for a deep-dive into the wild world of user-defined functions (UDFs) and decades of real-world development hacks. From building custom...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Surviving Ransomware
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 17 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by Peter Amiri to share the gripping, real-world story of what it's like to experience—and recover from—a devastating ransomware attack. They dive deep into the technical and emotional toll of cyber...
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Ben & Ryan Show - CMS Deep Dive
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 16 In this episode of the Ben and Ryan Show, hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by guest John Nessim to explore the evolving world of content management systems (CMS). With his deep development background and years of practical experience, John dives into…
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Ben & Ryan Show 2025 Early Reflections
In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown take a break from their usual guest interviews to reflect on their personal and professional journeys in the first months of 2025. They discuss major career transitions, the challenges of job hunting in today's market, and the evolving…
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Technical Debt & Acquisition Thoughts
In this episode, your hosts, Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown, sit down with Steve Leve from ShareASale to dive into the challenges and lessons learned from navigating an acquisition, managing technical debt, and executing large-scale migrations. They explore the impact of legacy systems, the balance...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Accessibility Driving Innovation in Design
In this episode, your hosts, Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown, sit down with Andrew Pendleton, Senior Director of Design Systems at Verizon, to discuss the role of design systems in driving consistency, accessibility, and innovation. They explore how Verizon’s approach to accessibility goes beyond...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Proactively Secure Your ColdFusion App
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 12 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown sit down with security expert Brian Riley, author of the HoyaHaxa blog, to discuss ColdFusion security vulnerabilities and best practices for mitigating risks. The conversation dives into recent ColdFusion exploits,...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Curios & Collectibles
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 11 In this episode, hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown interview Grant Powell, founder of Curios. Grant shares his journey in the Web3 and NFT space, detailing how Curios started as a licensable NFT platform and successfully pivoted after the NFT bubble burst. The discussion...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Developer Career Paths
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 10 In this episode of the Ben and Ryan Show, hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by Dan Short, the Director of Engineering at Virtuous Software, to explore the dynamics of career paths in software engineering, particularly the transition from individual contributor...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Management in the AI Age
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 9 In this episode your hosts, Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown, talk with Shawn Gorrell and explore diverse topics ranging from AI applications to organizational psychology and ethics, emphasizing practical tools and thoughtful strategies for teams and individuals. Key points: •...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Learning
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 8 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown talk about learning throughout your life. Key topics included: • Plug in your laptop if you are recording a podcast • Dogs can keep you up more than kids • Ben and Ryan are ChatGPT celebrities • What are the limits…
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Ben & Ryan Show - CF2025 How the Sausage is Made
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 7 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by Adobe Product Manager, Charvi Dhoot, and Semify CTO, Brian Sappey. The group discusses the upcoming ColdFusion 2025 release and how Adobe determines which features to include in the release. And as...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Thanksgiving
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 6 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown discuss what they are thankful for from 2024 and what they are expecting from 2025. And as always, the guys go on their many tangents.
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Ben & Ryan Show - Double Clicking into Cloud Hosting
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 5 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by xByte Cloud Chief Technology Officer, Dakota Clum, to double click into cloud hosting. What are people doing to deploy dev code into cloud hosted servers • RDP and make file changes directly on server •...
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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…
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Ben & Ryan Show - Freeforming IT
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 3 In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown just riff about whatever comes to their minds. Topics and tangents include disaster recovery beyond IT, scaling cloud servers, and strategies around email and video marketing. Disaster Recovery - just for IT teams •...
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VSR Systems Customer Spotlight
In this episode, Ryan gets to interview Eric Kratz and Witt Schenck from VSR Systems. They talk about their boutique Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Warehouse Management System (WMS). Guests Ryan Brown - xByte Cloud CMO Eric Kratz - President VSR Systems Witt Schenck - Product Manager VSR...
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Ben & Ryan Show - Cryptography with Justin Scott
Ben and Ryan Show Episode 2 - Cryptography with Justin Scott In this episode, your hosts Ben Nadel and Ryan Brown are joined by long time Adobe ColdFusion developer and security expert, Justin Scott, to discuss his recent presentation at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit. Justin’s Summit Presentation -...
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Ben and Ryan Show Episode 1
This is episode 1 of the Ben and Ryan Show! Watch and listen along while Ben and Ryan talk tech, Adobe ColdFusion, and life in general. In this episode, the guys reminisce about their time at the Adobe CF Summit 2024 that just concluded. See the conference through eyes of an introvert and...
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When to Host in the Public Clouds
Cloud Experts Unleashed – Episode 20 In this episode, Dakota and Ryan talk about what services they offer for public cloud customers and then discuss the specific needs of 4 companies hosting in the public cloud (Azure/AWS) and currently being managed by xByte Cloud. Guests Dakota Clum – xByte...
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Moving from OnPrem to the Cloud
Cloud Experts Unleashed – Episode 19 In this episode, we are joined by Charlie and Adam from WRIS web services to talk about how to successfully move to the cloud and who shouldn’t even try. Guests Dakota Clum – xByte Cloud CTO Ryan Brown – xByte Cloud CMO Charlie Meyers – WRIS Web Services CEO...
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Recent Adobe ColdFusion 2021-2023 Updates - Real World Experiences
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 18 In this episode, we are joined by Charlie Arehart to discuss our real world experiences helping customers apply the recent updates that required code changes around unscoped variables and encryption algorithms. Guests Charlie Arehart - Independent Consultant...
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ColdFusion Summit East Recap
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 17 In this episode, we reminisce about Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2024 thinking about all the people we met, the amazing content, and the product updates. Guests Adobe ColdFusion Senior Technical Evangelist, Mark Takata xByte Cloud CTO, Dakota Clum xByte Cloud...
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ColdFusion 2023 Update 7 and ColdFusion 2021 Update 13
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 16 In this episode, xByte Cloud CTO, Dakota Clum, and xByte Cloud CMO, Ryan Brown, discuss the latest ColdFusion 2023 Update 7 and ColdFusion 2021 Update 13. Topics Discussed: • What is in the update • New scope settings • Current exploit of the vulnerabilities…
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Server Clusters (Windows/Linux/ColdFusion)
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 15 In this episode, xByte Cloud CTO, Dakota Clum, and xByte Cloud CMO, Ryan Brown, discuss why various server clusters. Topics Discussed: • Why do you need more than a single server • When to expand beyond a single web or database server • Typical cluster...
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Sessions Killed My ColdFusion
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 14 In this episode, Austin Shelton, xByte Cloud Senior Dev Ops Engineer, and Ryan Brown, xByte Cloud CMO, discuss a recent customer issue where session management was causing their ColdFusion to crash. Troubleshooting Steps • Collect ColdFusion thread dump and…
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ColdFusion Troubleshooting Quick Tips
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 13 In this episode, xByte Cloud CTO, Dakota Clum, and xByte Cloud CMO, Ryan Brown, discuss adobe coldfusion troubleshooting quick tips. This is the last in the series derived from Dakota's presentation at the 2023 Adobe ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas. Topics...
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Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2024 and ColdFusion Online Summit with Mark Takata
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 12 In this episode, Senior ColdFusion Technical Evangelist, Mark Takata, and xByte Cloud CMO, Ryan Brown, discuss the upcoming ColdFusion Summits (ColdFusion Online Summit and ColdFusion Summit East). After talking about the Summits, Ryan and Mark dig into…
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ColdFusion - Post Crash Root Cause Analysis
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 11 In this episode, I am joined by xByte Cloud CTO, Dakota Clum, and we discuss how to analyze the data you saved before restarting your server after a ColdFusion crash. How to analyze a Thread Dump (jcmd $PID Thread.print ＞ThreadPrint.tdump) * Search for .cfm *...
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ColdFusion - What to Collect When It Crashes
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 10 In this episode, I am joined by xByte Cloud CTO, Dakota Clum, and we discuss what to collect when ColdFusion crashes before you restart your server. In this video, we discuss: * Why not restart your server right away * Reviewing ColdFusion Log Files * How to...
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ColdFusion Preproduction Gold Standard
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 8 In this episode, I am joined by xByte Cloud CTO, Dakota Clum and we discuss his gold standard for getting your ColdFusion updated and tuned. This is the first in a series of videos inspired by Dakota's presentation at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2023. Link to...
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Separate your VPS SQL and Web Server
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 5 In this episode, I go into one of the most asked questions we get.... "When deploying a new VPS environment, should I separate my web and sql server?". Except for very fringe cases, you should also separate them. Here are the high level reasons why. - Tailored...
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An Interview with ChatGPT
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 4 In this episode, I get interviewed by ChatGPT. We worked on a special prompt to have ChatGPT ask a question, wait for a response, and then ask a follow up question based on the response. They did this for 5 questions. We also experimented with multiple plugins…
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How to handle CPU Alerts
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 3 In this episode, I interview xByte Hosting COO Jeremy Ennis and we walk through how to configure and react to a CPU alert. To learn more about the cloud services from xByte Cloud, visit us at https://www.xbytecloud.com.
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ColdFusion 2021 and 2018 March 2023 Security Updates
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 2 In this episode, we walk through the latest ColdFusion vulnerability and how to update your system to prevent it. Useful Links https://blog.xbytecloud.com/critical-adobe-coldfusion-updates-released-for-2021-update-6-2018-update-16/...
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Tips to best manage your cloud infrastructure
Cloud Experts Unleashed - Episode 1 In this episode, I interview xByte Hosting CTO Dakota Clum and we discuss the tips you need to best manage your own cloud infrastructure. To learn more about the cloud services from xByte Cloud, visit us at https://www.xbytecloud.com.
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Interviews with some of the experts in cloud and hosting industry. Our guests are on the front lines actually doing the work and giving you real world context.
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