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  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...

  Debugging in the Dark: Closing ColdFusion Observability Gaps A production incident strikes your ColdFusion application. Users report slowdowns, and pressure mounts to fix it fast. Then you open the logs and find little to go on. The messages are vague, scattered, and impossible to connect to a single request. Read More

  Your ColdFusion application subscribes to a Redis channel for real-time events. It works in testing, and messages flow through. Then in production, messages go missing. Some arrive, some do not, and the pattern seems random. Read More

  Your ColdFusion application runs fine in Kubernetes for a while. Then pods start restarting for no obvious reason. The restart count climbs, and the logs show a healthy application. Yet Kubernetes keeps killing and restarting the containers. Read More

  Gone After the Upgrade: Fixing ColdFusion Truststore Mismatch After a Java Update You upgrade the Java version under ColdFusion for security and support. The upgrade completes, and ColdFusion starts normally. Then every outbound HTTPS call begins to fail. Integrations that worked for years suddenly throw certificate errors. Read More

  You add a Content Security Policy to harden your ColdFusion application. The security scan passes, and the header looks correct. Then the frontend quietly falls apart. Forms stop validating, buttons stop working, and widgets go dead. 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

  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