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  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

  The Hidden Tax on Every Query: ColdFusion Validation Query Latency Your ColdFusion application feels slightly sluggish under load. Every database query carries a small, consistent overhead. The queries themselves are fast and well-indexed. Yet a measurable delay precedes each one. Read More

  One Job, Many Runs: Stopping Duplicate Scheduled Tasks During ColdFusion Failover Your nightly billing job runs perfectly on a single server. Then you add a second node for reliability and failover. Suddenly, customers get charged twice. The same job now runs on both nodes at the same time. 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

  Moving a ColdFusion application from an on-premise server to the cloud promises real rewards. You gain scalability, resilience, and freedom from aging hardware. The plan looks straightforward on paper. Then the migration fails, and the application will not run in its new home. Read More

  Recursion is one of the most elegant tools in a developer’s toolkit. A function that calls itself can solve tree traversals, factorials, and nested data with clean, compact code. Then one day, the same function brings your server to its knees. A StackOverflowError appears, and the application stops responding. Read More

  Your ColdFusion application sends webhooks to external endpoints. You built retry logic to handle delivery failures. Then a request fails, and the retry never happens. The webhook silently disappears, and the downstream system never receives it. Read More

  Your ColdFusion application runs smoothly under normal traffic. Then a spike arrives, and processing grinds to a crawl. Requests pile up, response times balloon, and background jobs fall behind. Meanwhile, the server CPU sits surprisingly idle. Read More

  Your ColdFusion application integrates a chatbot API. The same user asks the same question twice. Yet the chatbot returns two different answers. Sometimes it works perfectly, and other times it returns garbled or empty responses. Read More

  You push a Kubernetes deployment update for your ColdFusion application. The rollout begins, and then everything breaks. Pods restart endlessly, the service returns errors, and users cannot reach the application. Meanwhile, the previous version worked perfectly minutes ago. Read More

  Your ColdFusion application runs in the cloud behind an autoscaling group. Traffic surges, so new instances spin up automatically. Then traffic drops, and the platform terminates instances. Suddenly, users report being logged out at random. Read More

  Your ColdFusion application authenticates users against Active Directory. Most of the time, it works perfectly. Then, without warning, logins start failing. Minutes later, they work again, as if nothing happened. Read More

  You configure a secure cookie in ColdFusion. Your site runs entirely over HTTPS. Yet the browser never receives the Secure flag. Worse, the cookie sometimes disappears entirely after a login redirect. Read More

  ColdFusion generates PDFs for invoices, reports, statements, and contracts. Therefore, reliable PDF delivery sits at the core of many enterprise apps. Yet developers often watch a cfdocument output fail in the browser. The page shows a blank frame, a download prompt, or corrupted bytes. Read More

  Introduction The integration works perfectly in staging. The mobile app calls the payment API through ColdFusion. Tokens authenticate. Transactions process. Then deployment to production fails with a cryptic message: “I/O Exception: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: java.security.cert.CertPathBuilderException: Could not build a validated path.” The API is up. Browsers connect to it without errors. Curl from the production server works fine. But ColdFusion refuses to talk to it. The error message points at Java security internals that most CFML developers have never read. Read More

  Introduction The user types José in the form. The browser sends “José” correctly. ColdFusion processes the request. The database stores “Jos?”. The user types Москва. The database stores “??????”. The user types 中文. The database stores “??”. Or worse — the data appears correct in SQL Server Management Studio but corrupts the moment ColdFusion reads it back. Every test in isolation works. The full pipeline silently destroys non-ASCII characters somewhere between keyboard and disk. Read More

  Introduction The code reads two database tables. It updates an inventory record. It inserts an order line. It updates the customer’s loyalty balance. Halfway through, the loyalty update fails — the column does not exist on the customer table after a schema change nobody documented. ColdFusion throws an error. You expect the transaction to roll back. You expect the inventory and order records to revert. You expect the database to look exactly as it did before the operation started. You expect atomicity. What you get is an inventory record that decremented, an order line that exists with a phantom customer reference, and an error log entry that says nothing about why the rollback failed. Read More

  ColdFusion 11 shipped in April 2014. Core support ended on April 30, 2019 , with the final security update — CF 11 Update 19, addressing APSB19–27 — released on June 11, 2019. Extended support continued for two more years. Read More

  Introduction Your application sends critical emails every day. Password resets depend on it. Order confirmations rely on it. Suddenly, you see “Connection refused” errors. Emails stop going out completely. Business operations grind to a halt. Read More

  Introduction You moved your ColdFusion application to Kubernetes with confidence. The platform promises scalability and resilience. Then users start reporting failed uploads. Files that worked perfectly on your old server now vanish. Error messages appear sporadically. Support tickets flood your queue. Read More