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Jacob Beers | November 17, 2025
SocketBox: Deploying Behind a Load Balancer

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.

BoxLang Thanksgiving Week: Code Smarter, Modernize Faster! 🔥

Maria Jose Herrera |  November 14, 2025

(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!

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Breaking the CFML Barrier: Going Serverless on AWS Lambda with BoxLang — by Dan Card

Dan Card |  November 13, 2025

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.

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Under the Hood of BoxLang 1.7: Our Fastest Compiler Yet

Luis Majano |  November 06, 2025

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.

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Recap: Modernize or Die Podcast Ep. 244

Victor Campos |  November 05, 2025

In this episode of the Modernize or Die Podcast, hosts Daniel Garcia and Grant Copley discuss the latest updates from Ortus Solutions, including the release of ColdBox 8 and BoxLang 1.7. They explore new features, real-time communication with SocketBox, and the implications of the recent Lucee 7 release.

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BoxLang v1.7.0 - Real-Time Streaming, Distributed Caching, and More

Luis Majano |  November 04, 2025

The BoxLang team is thrilled to announce the release of BoxLang 1.7.0, a landmark update that brings powerful new capabilities for modern web development, distributed systems, and AI-powered applications. This release introduces Server-Sent Events (SSE) for real-time streaming, a JDBC Cache Store for distributed caching, AST generation tools for code analysis, bytecode compatibility versioning, and significant performance improvements across the runtime.

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Ortus & BoxLang October Recap 2025

Victor Campos |  October 31, 2025

October 2025 was a wild ride at Ortus. We released ColdBox 8.0.0, The Ocho, a version that redefines CFML architecture from REST APIs to full-stack microservices. At the same time, BoxLang evolved with bx-ldap, bringing connection pooling and event-driven authentication for enterprise environments, along with BX-Charts, a new way to transform raw data into stunning visuals without relying on external libraries.

Beyond the code, we faced real-world lessons in modernizat...

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BoxLang Compat UI: Another Bridge from CFML to BoxLang

Luis Majano |  October 31, 2025

We're thrilled to announce the release of bx-compat-ui, a comprehensive UI compatibility module that makes migrating your Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee applications to BoxLang seamless and straightforward. If you've been hesitant about moving to BoxLang because of your existing UI components, this module is your answer.

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BoxLang RSS : Full-Featured RSS/Atom Feed Module for BoxLang

Luis Majano |  October 30, 2025

We're thrilled to announce the release of bx-rss, a comprehensive RSS and Atom feed module that brings powerful syndication capabilities to BoxLang! Whether you're building a content aggregator, publishing a podcast, or exposing your application's data as feeds, bx-rss makes it incredibly simple.

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BoxLang Redis Has Landed: Enterprise-Grade Caching, Pub/Sub, and Distributed Locking

Luis Majano |  October 30, 2025

We're thrilled to announce the release of the BoxLang Redis Module (bx-redis) - a powerful addition to BoxLang that brings enterprise-grade Redis functionality directly into your applications. Whether you're building distributed systems, implementing real-time messaging, or need high-performance caching, this module has you covered.

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