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Because you asked; we’re extending the Thanksgiving Week offer and officially launching our Cyber Monday BoxLang Deals today!

To support everyone who wants to understand whether they’re running on legacy CFML or modern-ready code, and whether BoxLang is the right fit; we’ve decided to extend the dates and increase the number of companies we can support.

Originally set to open on the 24th, we’ve decided to release the registration early, starting November 20th, so we can begin scheduling your BoxLang Compatibility Report audits next week and make sure they’re completed before the end of the year.

In this episode of the Modernize or Die Podcast, hosts Daniel Garcia and Jacob Beers discuss the latest updates from Ortus Solutions

The wait is over! We’re excited to officially launch CBWIRE 5, the most powerful version of our server-powered reactive UI framework yet, and you’re invited to the live reveal!

Are you tired of staring at endless, unreadable stack traces when exceptions hit your ColdBox app? There’s a better way to handle exceptions, especially during development, and it’s called Whoops!

Welcome back to our series on SocketBox - a websocket module for CommandBox + BoxLang. this is part 2 of a 4 part series about the SocketBox library. You can check out the first blog post here. We also have a tutorial repo to go along with each installment of the series.

(November 24th–28th, 2025)

This Thanksgiving week, Ortus Solutions is doing more than offering deals or discounts, we’re helping developers and companies modernize their CFML applications and take the next big step into the BoxLang era.

If you’ve ever wondered how ready your codebase is to move to BoxLang, this is your chance to find out, directly from our experts!

Like most in the CFML community, I’d heard about serverless for years but never dived into it for a host of reasons. One of these ( and a pretty major one! ) was an irrational avoidance of all things Java and being used to the ease of spinning up a CFML instance at other hosting locations.

However, as I started to have more and more small projects and personal tools that were a help to my day-to-day workflow, the cost to have these projects “always on” in a running instance or on EC2 was slowly, if not rapidly, becoming too expensive. This economic incentive, and the advent of BoxLang, were enough to overcome my reservations and the results were definitely worth the experiment.

With the release of BoxLang 1.7, our primary focus has been on improving the performance of our parser and bytecode generation pipeline. This article presents a comparison of BoxLang’s compilation performance against the current CFML engines. Future benchmarks will include other languages under similar workloads, but our immediate goal is to deliver measurable performance improvements to the CFML ecosystem, helping organizations achieve greater efficiency while preserving their existing technology investments, and provide to them a modern alternative and future.