Like most in the CFML community, Iâd 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 âalways onâ 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.