Lucid Outsourcing Solutions

  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

  Introduction The mobile app posts JSON to the ColdFusion REST endpoint. The endpoint returns “500 Internal Server Error” with no body, no useful header information, and no error message that helps diagnose the problem. The frontend developer asks the backend developer for help. The backend developer checks the ColdFusion error log — nothing recent. The exception log — empty. The Application.cfc onError handler — never fired. The endpoint works in Postman with the right request body. It fails with a 500 when the mobile app sends what looks like an identical request. The cause is invisible from every diagnostic angle except one — and that one is buried in a stack trace nobody thought to check. Read More