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State of the CF Union 2023 Survey Released

February 27, 2023 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

State of the CF Union 2023 Survey Released!

Help us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc.

Step 1 of 8 - Server environment (page 1 of 8)

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Server Environment
1. What version of CFML Engine do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- ACF 2023
- ACF 2021
- ACF 2018
- ACF 2016
- ACF 11
- ACF 10
- ACF 9 or earlier
- Lucee 5.3 or later
- Lucee 5.2 or earlier
- Lucee 4.5.5
- Railo 4.x or earlier
- BlueDragon
- Other
If other, please specify
2. What type of CFML Engine are you running? (Check all that apply)*
- Enterprise
- Standard
- N/A
3. What CF Server OS are you using (Check all that apply)?*
- Linux
- Mac
- Solaris
- Windows

Your Environment
4. What OS do you run on your laptop/PC? (Check all that apply)*
- ChromeOS
- Mac
- Linux
- Windows
- Other
If other, please specify
5. What browsers/client platforms do you support in your apps? (Check all that apply)*
- Android mobile
- Brave
- Chrome
- Dissenter
- Edge
- Firefox
- IE
- iOs mobile
- Opera
- Safari
- Other
If other, please specify
6. Databases you use? (Check all that apply)*
- Access
- Aurora
- Cassandra
- CouchDB
- Couchbase
- DB2
- DynamoDB
- H2
- MariaDB
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Percona
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- SQL Server
- SQLite
- None
- Other
If other, please specify

Frameworks and Methodology
7. What MVC Frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- CFWheels
- ColdBox
- Custom/home grown
- FarCry
- FW/1
- Fusebox
- Mach II
- Model Glue
- None - don't use a code framework
- Other
If other, please specify
8. What ColdFusion-based CMS do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- CommonSpot
- Contens
- ContentBox
- Custom/homegrown
- Farcry
- Masa
- Mura
- Preside CMS
- None - don't use a CMS
- Other
If other, please specify
9. What JavaScript libraries do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- Alpine.js
- Angular
- Backbone.js
- Ember.js
- jQuery
- KendoUI
- React
- Sencha Ext JS
- Vue.js
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
10. What CSS frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- Bootstrap
- Bulma
- Foundation
- Tailwind
- Vuetify
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
11. What CFC dependency injection frameworks and tools do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- ColdSpring
- Custom/home grown
- DI/1 - Inject One
- Wirebox
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
12. Which persistence frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- CF Wheels ORM
- ColdBox's cborm module
- ColdBox Quick module
- ColdFusion ORM (Hibernate)
- Farcry Core
- Homegrown
- Mura Objects
- Preside Objects
- Reactor
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
13. What testing and mocking frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- Cypress
- Homegrown
- MockBox
- MXUnit
- Playwright
- Rocketunit (CFWheels Built in)
- Selenium
- TestBox
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
14. What type of CF Mobile development frameworks are you using? (Check all that apply)*
- Cordova
- Flutter
- Ionic
- Native Android
- Native iOS
- PWA (Progressive Web App)
- PhoneGap
- React Native (not CF Mobile Dev)
- Quasar
- Not doing mobile Dev
- Other
If other, please specify
15. What miscellaneous frameworks/tools are you using? (Check all that apply)*
- CFFormat
- CFLint
- CommandBox
- DocBox
- Fixinator
- ForgeBox
- FuseGuard
- HackMyCF
- LogBox
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
16. What CF features do you use for code reuse? (Check all that apply)*
- CFCs
- CF custom tags
- CF includes
- Modules/extensions provided by my framework
- User defined functions
- None
- Other
If other, please specify

Tools
17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)*
- Azure DevOps
- Beyond Compare
- BitBucket
- CodeCommit
- Copy directories from time to time
- Custom solution
- A self-hosted Git repo like GitHub Enterprise
- GitLab
- GitHub
- Google Drive
- Mercurial
- MS Team Foundation Server
- Subversion
- Tortoise-CVS
- ZIP up folders
- None - Don't do source control
- Other
If other, please specify
18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- Atom
- Brackets
- CF Studio
- ColdFusion Builder Eclipse
- ColdFusion Builder extension for VS Code
- Dreamweaver
- Eclipse
- Homesite
- IntelliJ IDEA
- IntelliJ/WebStorm
- Notepad
- Notepad++
- SublimeText
- Textpad
- Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Code
- Other
If other, please specify
19. What Browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- Chrome
- Edge Dev Tools
- FireFox
- FireBug
- IE Dev Tools
- Safari Dev Tools
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
20. What do you use to build REST APIs (Check all that apply)?*
- CF built-in REST
- CFWheels REST
- ColdBox REST
- FW/1 REST
- Home-grown
- Preside REST
- Relaxation
- Taffy.io
- I don't use CFML for my REST APIs
- I don't use REST at all
- Other
If other, please specify
21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)*
- CacheBox
- CDN such as CloudFlare
- Couchbase
- EHCache
- ElastiCache
- Memcached
- Railo/Lucee Cache
- Redis
- None
- Other
- Don’t use any caching
If other, please specify
22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)**
- ActiveMQ
- Apache Pulsar
- AWS SQS
- Azure Service Bus
- Beanstalkd Work Queue
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- SQL Server Service Broker
- Don’t use any MQ
- Other
If other, please specify

Your programming background
You are more than half way done!
23. How many years have you used CFML? (Check one)*
- Less than 1 year
- 1 - 2 years
- 3 - 5 years
- 6 - 10 years
- 11 - 15 years
- 16 - 20 years
- 20+ years
24. How many years have you used OO? (Check one)*
- None
- Less than 1 year
- 1 - 2 years
- 3 - 5 years
- 6 - 10 years
- 11 - 15 years
- 15+ years
25. Other languages/environments you use? (Check all that apply)*
- .NET
- AJAX
- C++
- C#
- Classic ASP
- Clojure
- Flex
- F#
- Go Lang
- Groovy
- Java
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- MOVA
- Node.js
- Perl
- PHP
- Python
- R
- Ruby
- VB
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
26. How many CF developers at your organization? (Check one)*
- 1
- 2-5
- 6-10
- 11-20
- 21-30
- 31+
- Other
If other, please specify
27. How many total employees at your organization? (Check one)*
- 1-20
- 21-50
- 51-100
- 101-250
- 251-500
- 501-1000
- 1001-5000
- 5001-10000
- 10001+

ColdFusion Community
What CF communities are you part of
28. How often do you attend ColdFusion User Group meetings? (Check one)*
- Once per year
- 2-5 times per year
- 6-12 times per year
- Never
29. What CF-related topics are you interested in learning this year (Check all that apply)?*
- API Manager
- CF framework
- CommandBox
- Containerization
- Continuous Integration
- Database tool
- Front End framework
- Serverless
- Microservices
- Multi-cloud
- Object Oriented coding
- Performance Monitoring tool
- Security tool
- Source Control tool
- Testing tool
- VS Code for CF
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
30. What CF blogs do you read (Check all that apply)?*
- Adobe CF Community
- Ben Nadel
- Brad Wood (Coder's Revolution)
- Charlie Arehart
- FusionReactor
- Mark Kruger (ColdFusion Muse)
- Matthew Clemente
- Michaela Light (TeraTech)
- Nolan Erck (South of Shasta)
- Luis Majano (Ortus Solutions)
- Pete Freitag (Foundeo)
- Tony Junkes
- Wil DeBruin (shiftinsert.nl)
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
31. Which CF conferences will/did you attend this year? (Check all that apply)**
- Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week
- Adobe ColdFusion Summit East
- Adobe ColdFusion Summit West (Las Vegas)
- Adobe ColdFusion Summit India
- CFCamp
- Into The Box
- ITB LatAm
- MAX
- Ortus Developer Week
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
32. What online CF communities do you participate in? (Check all that apply)*
- Adobe Community Portal
- Box Team Slack (Ortus)
- CFML Slack
- CF Alive
- CF Facebook groups
- CF LinkedIn Groups
- CF Meetup
- Framework-specific groups (ColdBox, FW/1, etc)
- Local CFUG forum
- Lucee Discourse Forum
- Ortus Community
- Stack Overflow/Exchange
- Twitter (tweeting about CF, etc)
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
33. CF Open Source (Check all that apply)*
- I use open source code in my projects
- I contribute to open source projects
- My company sponsors CF open source projects
- Allowed to use open source code at my organization
- Not allowed to use open source code at my organization
- Would like to contribute to open source but don't know how
- Other
If other, please specify
34. I listen to the CF-related channels? (Check all that apply)*
- Adobe CF YouTube channel
- CF Alive podcast
- CFCasts video training
- LearnCFinaWeek
- LocalHost podcast
- Modernize or Die podcast
- Ortus YouTube channel
- TeraTech YouTube channel
- Working Code podcast
- I don’t listen to the podcasts or videos
- Other
If other, please specify

Deployment
Deployment, hosting, monitoring and security
35. What types of DEVELOPMENT setups do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- A shared development web server used by all devs
- A local installation of your CF engine on your PC
- A handmade VM
- Docker
- Vagrant
- CommandBox
- A shared development database server
- A local development database server
- None - I code on production!
- Other
If other, please specify
36. What types of PRODUCTION deployments do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- AWS AMIs
- Containers/Docker
- Managed Servers
- Shared hosting
- VPS
- We build our own server installations
- Other
If other, please specify
37. What hosting services do you use for your PRODUCTION deployments? (Check all that apply)*
- Amazon Web Services
- Databank (formerly Edge Hosting)
- DigitalOcean
- Docker Cloud
- Hostek
- HostMySite
- In-house
- Linode
- Luceeplanet.com
- Media3
- Microsoft Azure
- Rackspace
- Vivio
- Other
If other, please specify
38. What Docker Image(s) are you using, if applicable? (Check all that apply)*
- Custom image
- Official Lucee image
- Ortus CommandBox-based image w/ Lucee
- Ortus CommandBox-based image w/ Adobe CF
- Official Adobe images
- None
- Other
If other, please specify
39. What deployment/build tools do you use? (Check all that apply)*
- Ansible
- Ant
- Azure DevOps
- AWS CodePipeline
- AWS CodeDeploy
- Bamboo
- Bash
- Beanstalk
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- CodePipeline (AWS)
- Circle CI
- CommandBox Task Runners
- FTP
- Github Actions
- Gitlab
- Grunt
- Gulp
- Jenkins
- Travis CI
- None - I don't automate deployments or builds
- Other
If other, please specify
40. What monitoring tools are you using? (Check all that apply)*
- ColdFusion Performance Monitor Toolset
- CloudWatch
- DataDog
- Elastic APM
- Fusion Analytics
- FusionReactor
- HomeGrown/Custom
- NerdVision
- New Relic
- SeeFusion
- None - we don't monitor our servers
- Other
If other, please specify
41. How do you lock down your servers for security? (Check all that apply)*
- CFConfig to apply lockdown settings
- Official lock down guides
- Ops people who handle that
- Our own security protocols
- Server Profiles in CommandBox
- The "secure profile" in Adobe CF
- None - What's security?
- Other
If other, please specify
42. Have your CF servers suffered from a hacking exploit in the last 2 years due to a CF-based vector? (Remember, this is anonymous) (Check all that apply)*
- No
- Yes, CF patching lack
- Yes, SQL params lack
- Yes, XSS protection lack
- Yes, other vulnerable app code
- Yes, public CF admin
- Yes, zero day issue in CF engine
- Other
If other, please specify
43. Are you using or planning to use AWS Lambda? (serverless) (Check all that apply)*
- Yes- Foundeo Fuseless with Lucee
- Yes- Custom CFML Lambda
- No, but I plan to start
- No and I don't plan to
- Other
If other, please specify

Wrap up
Final page!
44. What aspects of CF keep you and/or your company using it? (Check all that apply)*
- Backing from a large company (Adobe)
- Clients request we use CFML
- Easy to hire CF developers
- Fast to learn
- Fun to code in
- Good documentation
- Good security
- Less code than other languages
- Legacy code/ Prior investment in CF is too large to rewrite
- Runs fast
- Supportive community
- You like the IDE choices/plugins
- Nothing
- Other
If other, please specify
45. What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF? (Check all that apply)*
- ColdFusion is dying
- Clients refuse to allow CFML solutions
- Cloud support poor
- Cost/licencing issues
- Difficult to find CF work
- Documentation poor
- Hard to find CF Developers
- IDE bad
- Lack of marketing/press
- Managing legacy code is a pain
- Management don’t like it
- Security weak
- Tech support lacking
- Unfixed bugs
- Nothing
- Other
If other, please specify
46. What are your company’s plans for your technology stack, if any? (Check all that apply)*
- Using Adobe ColdFusion and no plans to migrate elsewhere
- Using Lucee Server and no plans to migrate elsewhere
- Migrating from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee Server
- Migrating from Lucee Server to Adobe ColdFusion
- Migrating from CFML to another language
- Migrating from another language to CFML
If migrating FROM CFML to another language, please specify
If migrating from another language TO CFML, please specify
47. What is your approximate salary range in USD? (Remember, this is anonymous) (Check one)
- Unpaid
- < $025k
- $025k - $034k
- $035k - $044k
- $045k - $054k
- $055k - $064k
- $065k - $074k
- $075k - $084k
- $085k - $094k
- $095k - $104k
- $105k - $114k
- $115k - $124k
- $125k - $134k
- $135k - $144k
- $145k - $154k
- $155k - $164k
- $165k - $174k
- $175k - $194k
- $195k - $214k
- > $215k
If other, please specify
48. What is your current arrangement for CF work? (Check all that apply)*
- Contract
- In house
- Remote
- Salaried
- Self-employed
- Student
- Unemployed
- Other
If other, please specify
49. What industry is your company? (Check all that apply)*
- Agriculture
- Corporate
- Education
- Financial
- Government
- Healthcare
- Information Technology
- Manufacturing
- Mining/natural resource
- Retail/Wholesale
- Telecomms
- Transport
- Other
If other, please specify
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50. Any additional comments/suggestions for the survey?
Thanks so much for getting to the end of the survey!

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