Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2019 Full Report

Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2019 was awesome!

The 4^th Annual Adobe ColdFusion Summit East was held on April 10^th in Washington, D.C. At the interactive summit, attendees joined Adobe ColdFusion experts to learn how agencies across the U.S. are leveraging ColdFusion to rapidly build and deploy web and mobile applications.

The day was filled with engaging sessions and concurrent breakout tracks that:

• Discussed how Adobe is committed to ColdFusion, both now and in the future
• Provided insight into ColdFusion improvements and its surrounding ecosystems
• Explored product improvements Adobe has in store for the future roadmap of ColdFusion

Pre-Conference Workshops on April 09 Were Very Inspiring!

This was a full day pre-conference workshop available on Tuesday, April 9th

Two sessions were held.

1. Security
   1. Are you concerned with finding and fixing vulnerabilities in your ColdFusion code? Of course, you are! But are you proficient? This hands-on course took the participants through different types of security vulnerabilities and how they pertain to CFML. The take away from the course:
      1. Specific Red Flags to look for in your code
      2. How malicious invaders can exploit these vulnerabilities
      3. What you can do as a CFML developer to avoid this from happening

Related: How secure is your CFML?

1. Modernizing Websites
   1. Are you ready to take your ColdFusion Enterprise to the next level? Attend this session to learn how to utilize the API Manager and ColdFusion in tandem to strengthen your API strategy. You will also learn how to deploy reliable and robust APIs within AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Related: ColdFusion and the fear of change

Opening Keynote

The conference took off with an opening keynote from

1. Ashish Garg, Director of Engineering, Adobe
2. Dan Fredericks, Senior Associate, ICF International
3. Chason Hecht, Founder and CEO, Retensa
4. Rakshith Naresh, Product Manager for ColdFusion, Adobe

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Complete list and slides from presentations

Track 1:

Geek out with the Smart Language Additions in ColdFusion 2019
Rakshith Naresh, Product Manager for ColdFusion, Adobe

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Making Your Applications Fast and Furious with the New Performance Monitoring Toolset in CF 2018!
Elishia Dvorak, ColdFusion Solution Consultant & Evangelist, Adobe

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Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Hidden Gems
Charlie Arehart, ColdFusion Troubleshooting Consultant, CArehart.org

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Securing Mature CFML Codebases
Pete Freitag, Software Engineer & Web Consultant, Foundeo Inc.

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Step into Serverless with AWS and Adobe ColdFusion
Brian Klaas, Senior Technology Officer, Johns Hopkins University

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Track 2:

Faster Queries in ColdFusion & SQL Server
Eric Cobb, Database Development Manager, Centauri Health Solutions, Inc.

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Refreshing Your UI: Modern Uses for WebSockets
Giancarlo Gomez, Owner, CrossTrackr, Inc. and Fuse Developments, Inc. & Senior Web Application Developer, Duty Free Americas

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CF + ReactJS
Minh Vo, Lead Engineer, Draft STudios & Head of Development and Security, Advantage Data Inc.

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The Many Hidden Benefits of the Adobe API Manager to Unlock the Power of API
Brian Sappey, Applications Architect, Market America & Manager of Engineering, SHOP.com

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Revamp Your Monolith with Hierarchical MV
Luis Majano, President, Ortus Solutions

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While We Wait for CF Summit West 2019

Here are some more images from the conference…

 

 

Behind the scenes at Adobe #CFSummit East, main event Wed 8am in Wash DC. Who else is going?

With Kishore Balakrishnan and Elishia

New CF 2018 Performance monitor power with granular control and alerts for your ColdFusion apps. Amazing talk by Elishia at #CFSummit East

 

George Murphy showing off the new ColdFusion Codechecker at #CFSummit East. Super cool features for find problems Ion your code!

Minh Vo excited about Angular and ColdFusion at #CFSummit East

 

CF Alive book fans at #CFSummit East. Go ColdFusion!

Good seeing friends at #CFSummit East!

Big crowd at #CFSummit East already this morning. Thanks Adobe for a full breakie too!

 

 

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