In late 2020, AWS announced hundreds of new products and services. We’ll recap AWS re:Invent 2020 and find out what’s new at AWS, and focus on services ColdFusion developers will appreciate!

As ColdFusion turns 26 next month, many seem stuck remembering it only as the "teen" they knew or even the "child", when instead it's grown up to be a capable ""adult"", impressive in many ways, and even more so recently. In this session, we'll look back at how CF has indeed evolved into a very capable platform, with quite modern features that seem to surprise many—including people working with it currently. If you struggle "finding CF people" or "getting buy-in", perhaps these observations could help you with both challenges. If nothing else, they’re things designed simply to help you get your job done, while keeping up with modern practices. We'll start with many modern coding techniques--which will be familiar to those using more "modern" languages but that many don't realize that CF supports, and may have for years. We'll then look at ways CF installation/deployment, configuration/administration, monitoring, security, and more have improved over the years. And we'll look not only at CF itself but the community surrounding it, ranging from resources for help and learning to tools and services that others have created, making CF a far more complete ecosystem than most give it credit. Put another way: it's not your father's CF!

With mobile devices quickly becoming the standard of user interaction, it's important to know how to integrate your APIs in your mobile apps. This talk will build out a small Expo/React Native app and demonstrate how to use a ColdFusion API in it

ColdFusion ships with some pretty impressive document features, but you can extend them even further using Adobe Document Services. In this talk, I'll discuss how the free PDF Embed API can be used in your ColdFusion site to provide better control over the PDF experience in the browser. I'll then talk about our API offerings: Adobe PDF Services API, Adobe Document Generation API, and Adobe PDF Extract API

Despite the best testing efforts & due diligence of programmers, we still find that applications break, perform poorly and businesses are impacted, costing direct loss of revenue and indirect damage due to unhappy customer experience. The challenge is to minimize application downtime and accelerate time to resolution. The answer is FusionReactor. The presentation will demonstrate how FusionReactor can highlight performance problems and instantly spot issues as they unfold, pinpointing right down to the line of code that's the problem. If you’re using ColdFusion or indeed any Java application, then join David Tattersall - to learn how FusionReactor and Nerd.Vision can turn you into a SUPER HERO. Among the things attendees will learn are Identifying common performance issues in your applications How to quickly identify memory problems in transactions, queries and on the heap Easily debug your production code using FusionReactor or Nerd.Vision Automated error detection - sit back and relax and let FusionReactor do all the work You can read more about FusionReactor here - https://www.fusion-reactor.com/ and Nerd.Vision here - https://www.nerd.vision/

Every ColdFusion developer is a builder and an artist. We want to create and craft beautiful, elegant solutions with CFML that are powerful and dynamic… but sometimes, we still need to deal with the legacy code that was built a decade ago by a developer who has long since left the organization and didn’t know what they were doing to begin with. Or, maybe the company direction has shifted (again) and what was a priority in the past is no longer relevant. Maybe the approach you originally took to a problem can be done cleaner, and more efficiently. Maybe there’s new functionality in ColdFusion that renders old approaches obsolete. At some point, modernization of your approach becomes necessary to retain your sanity!

" We all want our web apps and APIs to respond quickly and scale to dizzying heights of traffic. The traditional request/response cycle of web applications gets us part way to that goal, but it certainly won't get us to being the next Amazon. Asynchronous messaging is a powerful architectural pattern that will help us avoid fundamental problems with scaling while keeping our ColdFusion apps fast and responsive. In this session, we'll look at how systems like Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Simple Notification Service (SNS) — along with similar systems in Azure and Google Cloud Platform — can help you build highly responsive, highly scalable apps and services. We'll also see how easy it is to talk to these messaging services from your ColdFusion apps with the latest cloud integration features in ColdFusion 2021."