Where is cold fusion headed

© 2016 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.
Where is ColdFusion Headed? – An insight into the product roadmap
Rakshith Naresh | Product Manager

My Story…
10 years ago…
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My Story…
Grow with the product…
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In all these years…
Is ColdFusion still alive?
4

Best description for ColdFusion…
Best Undead Language Ever
5

Agenda and expectation
 Where is ColdFusion today? – ColdFusion 2016
 Where is ColdFusion headed? – Peek into strategic areas of focus
 Conclusion
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Live survey through this session…
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/cfsummit2016
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Where is ColdFusion today? – ColdFusion 2016

What are the top upgrade drivers?
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2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3 3.2 3.4 3.6
PDF Enhancements
Platform support matrix upgrades
Language Improvements
Security Improvements
Performance Improvements
Drivers

How does CF 2016 measure up?
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PDF Enhancements
Language Improvements
Security Improvements
Performance Improvements

Survey - role
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Why API Management?
 Relevance
 Value
 Leg up
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API Management - Relevance
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63% of
ColdFusion user base
already expose APIs
2015
71% of
ColdFusion user base
already expose APIs
Now!
13%
Without Hindsight Bias

APIs – From concept to Go-To-Market
Step 1
Define your business
objectives
API Management - Value
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Step 2
Design your API
Step 3
Code your API
Step 4
Secure your API
Step 5
Manage your API
Step 6
Engage developers
Step 7
Measure impact

APIs – ColdFusion’s focus so far
Step 1
objectives
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Step 2
Design your API
Step 3
Code your API
Step 4
Secure your API
Step 7
Measure impact
Step 5
Manage your API
Step 6
Engage developers

APIs – ColdFusion (2016 release) API management
Step 1
objectives
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Step 2
Design your API
Step 3
Code your API
Step 4
Secure your API
Step 7
Measure impact
New Capabilities
Aids Design
Step 5
Manage your API
Step 6
Engage developers

API Management – Leg up
 A majority 74% - mixed technology stack
 Technology agnostic
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API
Manager

API Management – Leg up
Speedy. Scalable. Simple.
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Throughput on single node – More
than a billion requests per day!
Negligible latency for thousands of
concurrent users – less than
30ms
Throughput – 1.8x per additional
node
Users – 2x more per additional node
Latency – continues to be less than
30ms
Simplified and distinct API workflows
Intuitive user interface
Easy to comprehend analytics interface

Summarize – CF 2016
 Focus on core values – Performance, security, language, PDF
 All new API Management
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Survey
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Where is ColdFusion headed? – ColdFusion Aether

ColdFusion Aether - Benefits
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Implement a modern platform
Leverage containerization
Provision microservices architecture
Embrace devsecops
Accelerate digital transformation

Modernized language
 Improved object oriented support
 CFScript 2.0!
 Support for NULL
 Multi-threading support
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Improved OOP
 Support of covariant return types
 If a function returns "any" type, then more specific return type should be allowed
 Covariant for argument type
 Like return, covariant support for arguments too
emp.cfc – base class manager.cfc – inherited class

Improved OOP
 Method overloading support

Improved OOP
 Support abstract Component

Improved OOP
 static functions and variables

Improved OOP
 Every literal, or expression is an object
 Additional member functions – relook at all procedural functions that can be exposed as
member functions

cfscript 2.0!
 Support a new version of cfscript and get rid of the generic syntax from tags
 <cfscript version=2>
 Eg:
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Version 1
Version 2

Survey – script usage
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Support for null
 In CF, empty string “” is considered as undefined
 Interoperability issues with other technologies - webservices
 A null from JavaScript or database is serialized to “” (empty string)
 Introduce the null keyword, allow variables to be assigned to null
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Improved multi-threading support
 Allow synchronization in CFML code at function and block levels
 Provide a simpler way by introducing “synchronized” keyword
 Execute a task asynchronously
 Introduce “runAsync” function, as
 Support for Atomic datatypes : Atomic Integer/Boolean

Containerization
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Docker
 Provide official docker images for CF 2016 and CF next
 Advantages
 Continuous deployment and testing – identical dev test prod setup
 Reduced upgrade and reinstallation times
 Replicate – across CF nodes
 Multi-cloud platforms – simplify portability
 Version control
 Isolation – apps running on its own stack within containers
 Security – segregation and isolation – hacks cannot propagate to other containers
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Holistic approach to performance tuning
Perf tuning happens at three different levels
1. Webserver/connector tuning – Auto tuner
2. Application monitoring – JVM tuning or DB – Server monitor
3. Poor application performance – poor code quality – Code profiler
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Web Server ColdFusion Database
CF Application

Services separation and caching
 Evaluate services separation
 Smaller footprint for specific functionality
 Support for distributed cache
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Security
 Tool to lockdown
 Built-in Web Application firewall
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Embrace devsecops

Survey – Web Application Firewall
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API Management
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Accelerate digital transformationStrategy – Near Term
Performance and
Scalability
• Maintain lead position
trategy – Long Term
Analytics
• User
engagement
• API Auditing
SaaS and hybrid deployment models Cloud connectors and orchestration API Discovery and Marketplace
Security
• Threat protection
• 2 way SSL
API design
• Data transformation
• Multitenancy

Survey – API Management
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ColdFusion Aether - Summary
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Embrace devsecops
Accelerate digital transformation

2012
2014
2016
Adobe ColdFusion
Release Plan
ColdFusion 10
5 Years Core Support
2 Years Extended Support
With Each Release
* Existing roadmap goes beyond 2031
ColdFusion 2016
ColdFusion 11
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2018
ColdFusion Aether
2020
ColdFusion Next+
2022
ColdFusion Next++
The Best Undead
Language Ever
Conclusion

Where is cold fusion headed

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