Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021 was held from Tuesday 6/22/21 through Thursday 6/24/21. It was an online event, and all sessions were recorded for attendees (more on that further in the text). So even if you did not attend the event, you should register for it and be able to download the recordings. 

About the event

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week had 23 sessions that cover ColdFusion 2021’s brand-new features and updates. Plus info on the next release of CF.  And CF security, database optimization, and more. More details on topics and speakers are below.

CF Dev Week was free and speakers include 20 top CF experts.

BTW This was the 6th year of CF Dev Week. It was bigger and better than ever before, and organizers are very proud of it. And they should be. It was good. 

If you are a new developer, someone with little or no experience with Adobe ColdFusion, or even if you have been using it all your life, these sessions are just what you need.

Related: Adobe ColdFusion Dev Week 2021 Revealed with Kishore Balakrishnan, CF Alive Podcast Episode 108

Adobe ColdFusion 2021 

In case you ar new to CF 2021, Adobe ColdFusion 2021 was released at the CF Summit West 2020, and it was an awesome event. I’ve written about both quite a bit, and you can easily find details on both here:

• Related: Adobe ColdFusion 2021, in the Cloud (Modernized CF 2021 For the Next Decade)

• Related: Adobe ColdFusion Summit West 2020

Speakers

1. Brian Sappey

2. Brian Klaas

3. Ben Nadel

4. Charlie Arehart

5. Dave Ferguson

6. Luis Majano

7. Mark Takata

8. Pete Freitag

9. Rey Bango

10. Raymond Camden

11. Michael Collins

12. Giancarlo Gomez

13. Mike Brunt

14. Burke Holland

15. Sami Hoda

16. Corbin Crutchley

17. David Tattersall

18. Ashish Garg

19. Suchika Singh

20. David Byers

Agenda

Here are the topic details we already have – more to come.

WebSockets 101

Giancarlo Gomez. June 22, 2021 | 12 PM ET

If you’ve been wondering what WebSockets are, Giancarlo Gomez has you covered!

Join him and get a clear idea of how to take advantage of them in your applications today.

Scaling and Clustering ColdFusion 2021

Michael Collins. June 22, 2021 | 3 PM ET

Join Michael Collins as he reviews some of the best practises while configuring load balancing features within Adobe ColdFusion!

Java – Write Once, Run Anywhere – JVM – Not “Out Of The Box Ready”

Mike Brunt. June 23, 2021 | 10 AM ET 

JVM is at the heart of everything you do on Adobe ColdFusion! Join Mike Brunt for a practical demonstration of an un-tuned JVM and the steps you can take to tune it.

Feature Flags Change Everything About Product Development

Ben Nadel. June 23, 2021 | 12 PM ET

Feature Flags have revolutionized the way developers write code! Join Ben Nadel to find out why they’re one of the pillars of effective software development.

Securing ColdFusion Applications

Pete Freitag. June 23, 2021 | 3 PM ET

If you’re looking for ways to secure your applications, Pete Freitag has you covered!

Here is the link to Pete's presentation

Extending PDF Capabilities with Adobe Document Services

Raymond Camden. June 23, 2021 | 3 PM ET

Join Raymond Camden as he discusses how the free Embed API can be used to provide better control over the PDF experience on a browser.

Here is the link to Raymond's presentation

Building modern web apps with ContentBox Modular CMS

Luis Majano. June 23, 2021 | 11 AM ET

Join Luis Majano for a walk-through of ContentBox! Find out how its headless API and ColdBox Services lets you deliver not just content-based applications, but any modern web application!

ColdFusion Modernization Challenges – Improving Legacy Code

while Retaining Your Sanity

David Byers. June 24, 2021 | 10 AM ET

If you think modernizing legacy code is a challenge, David Byers can help! Join him as he discusses why it may be difficult to manage legacy code and the techniques you can use to improve it.

NoSQL, solving your relationship problems one model at a time

Dave Ferguson. June 24, 2021 | 11 AM ET

NoSQL databases are a great way to look at data storage for your apps without being bound to a tight data structure! Join Dave Ferguson as he shows you where it makes sense to use NoSQL databases and where it doesn't.

ColdFusion at 25: not the kid most have stuck in their minds

Charlie Arehart. June 24, 2021 | 4 PM ET

In 25 years, Adobe ColdFusion has evolved into a platform that makes hard things easy for every coder! Join Charlie Arehart for a quick look at the improvements over the years when it comes to installation, deployment, security and so much more.

Here is the link to Charlie's presentation

Scalable, Responsive Apps And Services With Queues And Pub/Sub Mechanisms

By Brian Klaas, and here is the link to the PDF of Brian's presentation

Become An Application SUPER-HERO

Learn how to: Reduce Technical Debt Impact And Keep Applications Performing As They Should

By David Tattersall, and here is the link to the PDF of David's presentation

Recordings

If you missed the live action at Dev Week 2021 or want to relive the experience, we have some good news! Recordings for all the sessions are now available for you to watch, on our Community Portal. Watch the recordings on Adobe Community Forum

Sponsors

• TeraTech

• Mitrah Soft

• Techversant

• Mura

• Lucid Outsourcing Solutions

• Hostek

• Foundeo

• Fusion Reactor

Why you should attend these events?

• Learn lots of ColdFusion skills, including the new CF 2021 multi-cloud, microservice and new CFML language features
• 3 days of online CF goodness
• Not just webinars – interact with other CFers, CF engineering team, sponsors
• One place where all CF devs, designers, decision-makers and thought leaders come together
• Meet the CF engineering team
• Network with other CFers
• Replaces the in person event CF Summit East (due to the pandemic)

Why is it so important to the CF community?

• Shows Adobe is fully backing CF
• Show new features in new CF 2021 release
• Seeing who is using CF and cool ways they are using
• Community building

 

Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.