If you're a ColdFusion developer, chances are, Lucee is a part of your life (or about to be). You've chosen CFML as the language of choice for web development because you believed you'd get shit done!
These days, though, it doesn't seem like you're getting much done.
The daily headaches are countless. Migrating between Windows and Linux. Maintaining legacy (and often poorly written!) CF apps. The complexities of the Java Virtual Machine you constantly bump up against. And your boss, breathing down your neck:
But you don't give up so easily. You've joined forums, bookmarked cfdocs.org, posted questions on StackOverflow, followed open source projects on GitHub, and participated in Slack chats...all to gain greater knowledge and insight into the secrets Lucee has to offer.
Yet everywhere you turn, it seems like other developer communities have solved your problems. If programmers aren't gushing about Ruby on Rails, they're enamored with Node.js, or Go or Python. Heck, even .NET looks appealing, now that Microsoft has jumped aboard the open source train. Every year a new software development survey comes out...and CF is nowhere to be seen. As much shade as PHP gets, at least it shows up on a list of "Most Dreaded" technologies!
CFML isn't on any list. Not loved. Not dreaded. Not wanted. Not even acknowledged.
All signs seem to point the same way: Time to jump ship. It was a good run. ColdFusion got you into the web industry and it feels as though it is time to put Lucee to bed and join one of these "winning" teams.
These days, though, it doesn't seem like you're getting much done.
The daily headaches are countless. Migrating between Windows and Linux. Maintaining legacy (and often poorly written!) CF apps. The complexities of the Java Virtual Machine you constantly bump up against. And your boss, breathing down your neck:
When are we integrating with Docker containers? What's the status on those Amazon EC2 deployments? How much longer until we can re-implement as a progressive web app?It never ends!
But you don't give up so easily. You've joined forums, bookmarked cfdocs.org, posted questions on StackOverflow, followed open source projects on GitHub, and participated in Slack chats...all to gain greater knowledge and insight into the secrets Lucee has to offer.
Yet everywhere you turn, it seems like other developer communities have solved your problems. If programmers aren't gushing about Ruby on Rails, they're enamored with Node.js, or Go or Python. Heck, even .NET looks appealing, now that Microsoft has jumped aboard the open source train. Every year a new software development survey comes out...and CF is nowhere to be seen. As much shade as PHP gets, at least it shows up on a list of "Most Dreaded" technologies!
CFML isn't on any list. Not loved. Not dreaded. Not wanted. Not even acknowledged.
All signs seem to point the same way: Time to jump ship. It was a good run. ColdFusion got you into the web industry and it feels as though it is time to put Lucee to bed and join one of these "winning" teams.
Stop.
If you've ever had this thought:
If only I knew what these other communities knew, I could implement their best practices into our development processes. Then, someone might finally take us serious for a change....then we have a site for you.
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And just what is it, exactly, that will "go live"?
Glad you asked!
And just what is it, exactly, that will "go live"?
Glad you asked!
- Learn the secrets of a 10x developer on how to optimize your development process to get shit done. Turn 2 weeks of development into 1 day of development. This will directly impact your ability to modernize/enhance your development processes, so that you actually have time to implement them, rather than continue to be stuck in maintenance hell.
- Complete end-to-end tutorials on modernizing your Lucee development projects, with a focus on continuous integrations, test driven development, and performance optimization (at scale).
- Up-to-date guides on integrating with the latest technologies (serverless, containers, S3, EC2, service workers, progressive web apps, etc.) as well as relevant enterprise-grade approaches (load balancing, NGINX, multithreading, Redis caches) to common problems in web development.