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December 05, 2019

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In this tutorial, Brad Wood shows how to use FusionReactor features such as the request Profiler to identify several bottlenecks of slow code in a ColdFusion app.

https://www.fusion-reactor.com/

https://commandbox.ortusbooks.com/embedded-server/fusionreactor

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Dec 05, 2019 15:47:08 UTC

by David Tattersall

Awesome video Brad - really shows off one of FusionReactors best features. Point to note is that the overhead is actually really small in comparison to the benefit you get. In this video, the profile probably took under 45ms in total. So for a 9 second request that's not bad at all really !

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