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  The Disk You Forgot You Had: Stopping ColdFusion Logs From Filling Kubernetes Ephemeral Storage Your pods were stable for six weeks. Then, within an hour, three of them were evicted. Nothing changed in the code. Traffic was ordinary. Memory and CPU graphs looked healthy. Read More

  Same Timestamp, Different Hour: Fixing Timezone Mismatches Between ColdFusion and Node.js An order is created at 10:00 AM. The ColdFusion service stores it correctly. The Node.js service reads it and reports 5:00 AM, or 3:00 PM. Nobody changed the data. Two services simply disagree about what the time means. Read More

  The Missing Boundary: Fixing ColdFusion Multipart Uploads From Next.js Server Actions Your Next.js Server Action receives a file. It forwards that file to your ColdFusion upload API. Then the upload fails. ColdFusion cannot find the file, or reports a malformed request, even though the file was clearly there. Read More

Duplicate and Missing Rows: Fixing ColdFusion Pagination in Next.js Infinite Scroll Your Next.js app loads a feed with infinite scroll. It fetches page after page from your ColdFusion API. Then users see the same item twice, or an item vanishes between scrolls. The list feels broken, even though each API response looked correct. Read More  

  Reading the Session on the Server: Fixing ColdFusion API Cookies in Next.js Server Components Your Next.js app uses Server Components. A component renders on the server and calls your ColdFusion API. Then the ColdFusion session cookie is nowhere to be found. The API responds as if no user is signed in. Read More

  No Getters, No Setters: Fixing ColdFusion Serialization of Java Records Your ColdFusion application integrates with a modern Java library. The library returns a Java record, a clean, immutable data carrier. Then you try to read its properties or serialize it from CFML, and it fails. The values you expect are missing, or the object serializes to something unusable. Read More

  Threads That Won’t Die: Fixing ColdFusion ExecutorService Leaks After Reload Your ColdFusion application creates a Java ExecutorService to run background tasks. It works well, processing work on a pool of threads. Then you reload the application, and the old threads keep running. Reload again, and more threads pile up, until the server runs out of resources. Read More

  Method Not Found at Runtime: Fixing ColdFusion Java Version Conflicts Your ColdFusion application calls a Java library method that clearly exists. The code compiled and ran fine before. Then it fails with a method-not-found error at runtime. The class is present, the method should be there, yet Java insists it does not exist. Read More

  Before you optimize a ColdFusion application, you must measure it under load — because optimizing without a baseline is guessing, and you can’t prove an improvement you never measured. k6 and Gatling are the two modern, code-first load-testing tools for this: both hit your ColdFusion app over HTTP (they’re language-agnostic — ColdFusion is just the target under test), both define load scenarios as version-controlled code, both run in CI, and both stream results to Grafana. k6 scripts in JavaScript — an options object sets virtual users (VUs), stages , and pass/fail thresholds like http_req_duration: ['p(95)<500'] , and a default function defines what each VU does. Gatling runs on the JVM and scripts in a Scala/Java/Kotlin DSL — a Simulation chains a scenario().exec(http(...)) , setUp(...injectOpen(rampUsersPerSec(...))) shapes the load, and .assertions(...) set pass/fail criteria (the direct analog of k6 thresholds). The methodology is the same for both: esta...

  Falling Behind Reality: Fixing ColdFusion Kafka Consumer Lag at Peak Your ColdFusion consumer reads from a Kafka topic without trouble most of the day. Then peak traffic arrives, and the consumer falls behind. The lag climbs steadily, and downstream data goes stale. Messages produced now are processed minutes later. Read More

  Both Sides Must Prove It: Fixing ColdFusion mTLS Authentication Failures Your ColdFusion service connects to a partner API secured with mutual TLS. The configuration looks complete on both ends. Then the handshake fails with a cryptic certificate error. Neither service will trust the other, and the integration stalls. Read More

  Don’t Break the Contract: A Safe API Versioning Strategy for ColdFusion You ship an improvement to your ColdFusion API. The change is clean, and your tests pass. Then the support tickets flood in. Partner integrations have stopped working, and mobile apps throw errors everywhere. Read More

  Ten Nodes, Ten Times the Limit: Fixing ColdFusion Rate Limiting in a Cluster Your ColdFusion API enforces a clean rate limit on a single server. Each client gets a fair share, and abuse gets blocked. Then you scale out to a cluster for capacity. Suddenly, clients blow past their limits with ease. Read More

  Stale Data From the Cache: Fixing ColdFusion ORM Second-Level Cache Inconsistencies Your ColdFusion ORM application caches entities for speed. The second-level cache slashes database load impressively. Then a user updates a record, and the trouble begins. Some parts of the application still show the old data. Read More

  You update a product price in your ColdFusion application. One user sees the new price immediately. Another user, on the same site, still sees the old one. Then a refresh flips them back and forth unpredictably. Read More

  You built a ColdFusion cluster for reliability and scale. Multiple servers share the load behind a balancer. Then users report a maddening problem. They log in, click a link, and suddenly they are logged out again. Read More

The Pauses GC Logs Never Show You: Diagnosing ColdFusion Safepoint Latency   Your ColdFusion application shows unpredictable latency spikes. Most requests return in milliseconds. Then a handful take hundreds of milliseconds for no visible reason. Meanwhile, the garbage collection logs look perfectly healthy. Read More

  The Slow Leak: Why Continuous Deployments Exhaust ColdFusion Metaspace Your ColdFusion application runs perfectly after a restart. Then you deploy an update, and another, and another. Days later, the server crashes with a memory error. Yet the heap looks healthy the entire time. Read More

  Breaking the Monolith Barrier: Containerizing Legacy ColdFusion Applications Containerization promises consistency, portability, and modern deployment. You package the application once and run it anywhere. The pitch is compelling for aging ColdFusion systems. Then you try it on a real monolith, and the difficulties multiply. Read More

  Enterprise teams running ColdFusion often hit a frustrating wall the moment they put an API gateway in front of their CFML services : requests that work fine when hitting ColdFusion directly suddenly 404, hang, or land on the wrong endpoint once a gateway is in the path. This is one of the most common integration issues reported by ColdFusion shops moving toward microservices, third-party API consumption, or Adobe’s own API Manager. This guide walks through why routing breaks, how to diagnose it layer by layer, and how to fix it — with working code you can drop into a real environment. Read More