One of the advantages of our decades of combined experience is speed—we identify, prioritize and fix the causes of performance and stability problems as quickly and effectively as humanly possible. If you’ve got ColdFusion performance and/or stability problems, and you haven’t yet hired us for consulting, then I’d like to invite you to try our [...]
Not only is it possible, but I spend most of my time every week doing this for our Webapper customers.
As we all know, businesses and their supporting web applications are constantly changing and adapting. With any luck, change is in the direction of growth, and adaptation simply becomes a component necessary to keep up [...]
Undoubtedly, the ColdFusion Administrator settings for Request Tuning are critical to performance of Web applications running in the server. While reading the recent Adobe article on Performance Tuning for ColdFusion Applications I was surprised to find the content on this topic to be a little light. With that in mind, I set out to [...]
Ok, so I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I must be crazy for suggesting that a simple built-in unique randomization function could somehow be instrumental in crashing a ColdFusion server, right? Well, before you go calling me a lunatic, let me assure you that the ColdFusion createUUID() function DOES, in fact, represent a threat [...]
We’re happy to announce another big notch in our Web application engineering belt–Steven Erat joined Webapper last month! Steven has spent the past decade of his life as a senior member of the ColdFusion engineering and support divisions at Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe. Most recently at Adobe he was an engineer on the Flex SDK team. Unless you’ve [...]
There’s an article in the latest eWeek magazine, entitled “Scaling Ruby on Rails”, that’s instructive for those of us in the ColdFusion community. RoR is going through that time-honored rite of passage experienced by any programming language that gains wide adoption. Namely, so-called critics are questioning its scalability and its suitability for mission-critical applications. Sound [...]
At Webapper, we’ve always described our tuning & troubleshooting consulting as a “wire-to-wire” service. This means that we find and fix performance and/or stability problems wherever they are, even if they’re in the network layer (e.g., the TCP “silly window” problem). And beyond troubleshooting production systems, we’ve always found that HTTP sniffers are useful during [...]
At Webapper, we’re big fans of monitoring tools. You absolutely MUST be able to see what’s going on inside your software in real time. We use MySQL on some of our production servers, and we’ve been using SQLyog as an administration GUI for many years. It’s a great way to run MySQL databases–it’s one of [...]
I wrote a post not too long ago about using lighttpd (lighty) to ease your server load. My setup consisted of one high-end server box (2x Dual-core Xeon’s, RAID 5, 6GB RAM) running Windows Server 2003 x64 and Virtual Server 2005. Virtual Server had three VM’s running… my CF/IIS server, my database server, and my [...]
So it was brought to my attention during my CFUNITED presentation on Tuesday morning that a few slides of high interest were not viewable on-screen or in the conference book. Specifically, there’s a great Viso diagram of the template request workflow as it applies to ColdFusion and the settings for Trusted Cached and Saving [...]
