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102 ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting) with Joby John

Feb 14, 2020

Joby John talks about “ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

 

Show notes

Biz side of CF

Hiring CF developers

  • Attitude is key
  • Skills can be learned

Training new people on CF - out of college or from other languages 

Versions used by their customers

  • Mostly CF 2016, some CF 2018
  • Some even older versions

Why not the newest version?

  • Cost of CF
  • Cost of migration

Why upgrade then?

  • Way better performance and security in CF 2018

Scaling team

  • Double team size
  • Fast to scale down in future too
  • Knowledge transfer

New trends in frontends on top of CF

  • jQuery to React or Angular 
    • Latest trends in tech 
    • Better UI
  • CF backend
  • Fashions in IT

CF growing

  • From smaller projects to enterprise projects

Migrating away from CF?

  • No - Too costly to recode in other languages such as Python or Java
  • CF scales well

Testing

What versions are people migrating to

  • ACF to Railo or  Lucee 
  • Only small projects
  • Bigger customers more focused on the code base investment than server software cost
  • Cloud licensing issue of ACF vs Lucee
    • CF 2020 solves this for ACF

Adobe partnership program

Adobe CF certification program

  • Coming to CF Summit India 2020

Why are you proud to use CF?    

  • The first customer we worked with was using ColdFusion to develop their web application and from there we worked with many customers who use ColdFusion. We were able to build a strong team of ColdFusion to help our customers from there

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?  

  • We are planning to hire more college freshmen this year and provide them ColdFusion training. 
  • Invite more non-Indian partners to the summit
  • More college classes in CF - support for this. 

What did you enjoy at CF Summit India? 

  • It was a pleasure to meet a lot of developers and talk to them. It was a pleasure to bring my ColdFusion team and they were so excited to see new trends in Coldfusion and see an active Coldfusion community in India

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Bio 

Joby John

Joby John is CEO of Techversant Infotech, a 200 person consulting firm specializing in ColdFusion Technology based in Kerala, India and Alberta, Canada.  He is a young and vibrant leader. He is responsible for corporate vision, strategy, business growth and total customer satisfaction.

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