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When we wrote about our lack of confidence in ColdFusion, we received some pushback that we were being too hard on Adobe. But the truth that remains a few months later is that ColdFusion is nowhere near cloud native, and the support of cloud methods is just not enough for the long haul.
The more we delve into DevOps, the more we appreciate it. It's definitely an upfront investment, but it gets us to a place where we move fast without breaking things. Based on our experience, we share our CI/CD tips...
Stack Overflow recently released “The 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey,” a report sharing the collective opinion of developers around the world about their habits, tools, needs, and compensation. Let’s look at what the survey reveals about cloud platforms, programming languages, web frameworks, databases, and other preferred tools.
A recent project at Webapper brought us back to three cornerstones of cloud migration strategy: rehost, replatform, rearchitect. In the near term, the goal is to rehost the application, a lift-and-shift migration to improve performance and set the stage for long-term, sustainable growth. But the roadmap is never a straight line...
We've had time to read through the results of the annual "State of ColdFusion" survey from TeraTech. It's a community-driven survey that tries to collect the sentiment of the ColdFusion community to identify trends. We wanted to share five key takeaways regarding the state of ColdFusion in 2021.
Webapper's CEO Patrick Quinn recently appeared on the Founders Focus podcast, where he spent some time describing "The Strangler Pattern". It's a technique we fully embrace at Webapper in our quest to migrate applications to cloud native architectures.
As Webapper builds a growing portfolio of serverless applications -- FaaS, as we've outlined before -- we are continually embracing AWS Lambdas. We'll share some of our thoughts and experiences on AWS Lambdas so you can see if they fit for your cloud application development projects.
In Functions as a Service architecture, all features of an application are deployed and hosted as individual, solo features. As a result, FaaS is a dynamic, fluid, cost-optimized model for modern application development.
The more likely you are to author tests, the better your results... Automation is the best way to increase test coverage, execution speed, and efficacy in software testing. Automated testing eliminates the tedium of manual, error-prone tests and facilitates unattended (e.g., overnight) testing. Automated testing is an important element in your CI/CD process, and Selenium is a powerful platform for it.
Quality Assurance (QA) directly affects customer experience. It's becoming more important to shift left -- moving testing earlier in the software development process to save time down the road. The importance of software testing cannot be understated. Technology issues can paralyze customers, so having smart processes in place for issue detection and remedy is not optional anymore.
