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  <title>117 ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 - future CFML) with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel</title>
  <description>Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 - future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. &amp;amp;nbsp; Show notes&amp;amp;nbsp; Where do you see CFML (ACF and Lucee)&amp;amp;nbsp; in the next 5 years  Future Features we want to add Features we want to remove PaaS, FaaS, Lambda Better CF admin config&amp;amp;nbsp;  Lucee 6 CFConfig and CommandBox   Engine Packages, cloud and microservices  AWS and other cloud provider reliability, multi-cloud   Persistent parallel thread that reliably run in the background  Event gateway without lots of code Alt: Scheduled tasks and microservices&amp;amp;nbsp;   Full Null support Cfscript syntax ACF vs Lucee Target tech  Front end - React, Angular, Vue, new one? Intermittent internet access Browsers and devices   Modern Eco-system  In some ways the ecosystem is as or more important than the actual language for programmer productivity&amp;amp;nbsp; Tools IDE  Adobe CF VScode extension  Sneak preview session at cfdevweek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTiPoRm0P04   &amp;amp;nbsp;     AI/ML features  CFML IDE Lucee Page parts feature - speed of line execution   Better error handling - let it run type code - Erlang language Code coverage, language feature coverage  FusionReactor line execution code tool   In general  Reliability and performance Auto Scalable Secure Modern language features and ecosystem Backward compatible CFML Alive!   Learning CFML speed in 1 week&amp;amp;nbsp;  See roundtable 2 Hiring CF dev vs cross-hire and train Polyglot programmers   Tech fashion  Dev first vs CIO led PR and marketing Gartner&amp;amp;nbsp;   Audience  CF dev Dev Ops CIO and CEO&amp;amp;nbsp;  Also teaching and increasing staff     Reducing dev stress  CFML Engine Updates  New version releases Security hotfixes Script your deployments JSON based config Docker images  ACF Lucee CommandBox ones Charlie ITB conference pre-conf workshop    Why is it still wise to use CFML WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What is the next conference you are attending? &amp;amp;nbsp; Mentioned in this episode   ACF and Lucee roundtable 1  ACF and Lucee roundtable 2  Lucee 6 features episode  Adobe Dev Week 2022 blog post Language speed comparison - Lucee 2nd fastest - Brad Wood blog ColdFusion is more modern than you realize - Charlie Arehart Dev Week talk Implementing third-party CF libraries Gavin Pickin CF Meetup Adobe VS Code CF code IDE extension Ben’s blog Brian Bockhold Dev Week session (Wed July 20, 1430)  “Exploring AWS Java SDK developer features using the Java integration implemented in ColdFusion 2021”   Let it fail code - Erlang language Code coverage FusionReactor and TestBox  &amp;amp;nbsp; Bio Charlie Arehart  A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting). Links  Twitter: https://twitter.com/carehart Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carehart LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carehart Web http://carehart.org/  Gert Franz  Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. He is one of the key people behind Lucee. Back in the late eighties, he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst. Gert spoke a lot at all major conferences in the past and will for sure in the future. He is now a fellow at DistroKid. Links  gert (at) rasia.ch http://rasia.ch/ https://twitter.com/gert_rasia&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp; https://www.linkedin.com/in/gert-franz-4056807/&amp;amp;nbsp;  &amp;amp;nbsp; Mark Drew  Mark Drew has been programming CFML since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with CFML.&amp;amp;nbsp; He has been a strong advocate for open source, having worked on CFEclipse, Railo and now Lucee as well as a number of other projects. He tries to create a pull request a day, to keep the bugs at bay. By day he helps other developers as the lead devops engineer at DistroKid, making sure that the carefully crafted artesanal code goes from laptop to server in the shortest time whilst keeping all its flavour. By night he develops games with CMD:Studio.&amp;amp;nbsp; He has been known to do a podcast too! called the Localhost Podcast in which we talk all about the web. He also talks about the process of making games on the Level Design Podcast Links  https://twitter.com/markdrew https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdrew CFML Slack Mark (at) cmdhq.io https://anchor.fm/leveldesign https://localhost.fm/  Ben Nadel  Ben Nadel is the technical co-founder of InVision App, Inc - a digital product design platform used to make the world's best customer experiences. As the original CTO, Ben now spends his days as a Principal Engineer, leading maintenance and development efforts on InVision's legacy platform. This includes systems monitoring, database optimization, instrumentation, back-end work, front-end work, product ideation, and research-and-development. He envisions himself as a champion of the User Experience; and, often advocates for the User even in the face of internal opposition. Outside of work-hours, Ben wakes up at 5 am, seven days a week, so that he can attempt to stay on top of the rapidly changing world of web development. He uses these early-morning hours to read, conduct experiments, and write articles for his blog, BenNadel.com, which he has been running since 2006. Links  Ben Nadel | LinkedIn Ben Nadel blog  &amp;amp;nbsp; </description>
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