Webapper is experienced in ColdFusion application development & hosting. We offer ColdFusion and Lucee hosting & migration services.
ColdFusion 2025 just erased perpetual licenses and locked users into annual payments—without fixing its architectural or talent problems. For AWS teams, the smart move is to reinvest those costs into modernizing workloads using Lambda, ECS, and API Gateway instead of funding ColdFusion subscriptions forever.
In 2023, we published 48 articles for webapper.com, tackling topics based on our work in SaaS, Amazon (AWS) & the cloud, and a bit of ColdFusion. Although part of our purpose is driving search traffic, we really choose topics from our day-to-day work experiences to enlighten our audience. Here are the top 10 most-read articles in our Webapper 2023 Wrapped!
The tools we use for software development continuously evolve, enabling developers to write efficient, effective code to address changing market needs. Choosing a development platform is challenging because each software development framework carries advantages and disadvantages. Since we have a long CFML pedigree (and occasionally controversial opinions on the subject), we wanted to address a question we're asked regularly: does anyone use ColdFusion anymore?
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.
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.
As painful as it can be, we present the case for why we think ColdFusion 2021 might be an off-ramp from Adobe ColdFusion.
Adobe ColdFusion (ACF) is widely used among midsize and large automotive businesses, hospital & heath care companies, financial services and government agencies. ColdFusion delivers data and services from data centers and cloud environments around the world, and hosting ColdFusion on AWS is a powerful solution.
Lucee is an open-source replacement engine that is highly compatible with Adobe ColdFusion (ACF). Nearly all CFML/CFScript code that runs on ACF will run on Lucee without modification...
