We are very excited to bring you a new commercial product release for the Ortus Family: Redis Lucee Extension  The Redis Lucee Extension allows you to natively connect to a Redis Server cluster and leverage it for distributed caching, session/client storage and distribution, cluster RAM file systems, and much more. It can allow your Lucee servers to scale and extend easily by leveraging Redis Server as the platform of choice for session/cluster managements, caching and virtual file-systems.

If you have ever asked yourself these questions, then our Lucee Extension can help you:

• Want to use round-robin balancing instead of sticky sessions?
• How do you deal with session/client information when you have more than 1 server in your cluster?
• How can I scale my Lucee servers when I am running out of RAM?
• Do you want your users to still be logged in even if a server in my cluster dies or is restarted?
• Do you want to have a cluster-wide file system?
• Do you want to be able to cache data in a distributed and elastic fashion?

 

We have been working with Redis Server for many years and it has been a true pleasure to not only build scalable farms with it, but also it is incredibly responsive when it comes down to key-value storage and caching transactions.

Capabilities

Here are some of the major features of our Redis Extension:

• Add Native Redis functionality to any Lucee CFML application
• Install at the server level (Available to all contexts)
• Create Cache connections in the Lucee administrator to connect to any network-accessible Redis cluster
• Set and get objects from Redis via standard CFML functions and tags cachePut(), cacheGet(), <cfcache action=“get|put”>
• Fully supports all built-in Lucee cache functions including wildcard filters
• Seamlessly distribute storage of the following to any bucket in a Redis cluster
  • Lucee session storage
  • Lucee client storage
  • Lucee RAM resource ram://…
• Seamlessly cache the following to any timeout-sensitive bucket in a Redis cluster
  • Results of database queries <cfquery cachedwithin>
  • Results of deterministic functions <cffunction cachedwithin>
  • Complex or simple objects in your application's code
  • Cached templates <cfcache action=“content|cache|serverCache”>
• Registers new CFML Built-In Functions (BIFs) for native Java access to Redis
• Extremely lightweight and fast

 

Purchase Extension

Resources

Please visit our Extension page for all the necessary resources.

• Purchase
• Capabilities
• Trial Version
• Professional Support

Ortus Solutions' very own conference, Into the Box conference, is returning and is better than ever in 2018. We are hosting a 1 day workshop and then two days of Coldfusion madness. Into The Box 2018 is still held Houston, Texas this April. Wednesday the 25th is our first day in which you can sign up for one of our 4 great workshops, Thursday April 26th and Friday the 27th are 2 full days of back to back conference sessions, with 2 tracks to choose from and over 30 individual sessions. **We are so excited to finally unveil the schedule lineup for our Into The Box conference!**

 

More than two years have passed since CFCouchbase 1.1 was released. With community support, we are happy to announce the release of CFCouchbase 2.0.0! If you are not familiar with CFCouchbase we encourage you to checkout the Documentation. The SDK has been updated to support the new functionality available in Couchbase Server 4.x, including:

• N1QL Queries
• GSI Indexes
• Replica Reads
• Document Locking
• Prepared Statements
• Improved Design Document Management
• Expanded Configuration Options
• And more…

 

It is finally here! ColdBox 5 RC1 has landed with force! There are so many things to talk about, but we will focus on what RC brings and all the eco-system updates we have been working on. So let's begin this adventure.

The package link and package unlink commands are fairly new to CommandBox and here's a brief screencast that shows you a real life use case for them.  The package link command will create a symlink from your current directory into your CommandBox's system modules folder and reload your shell. 

Merry Christmas everyone!   This is our final installment for this year's 12 Tips of (CommandBox) Christmas! We're leaving this year with a bang as we look forward to what's coming in the future with the next major release of CommandBox CLI.

Welcome to the last day of (ForgeBox) Christmas! I hope you have enjoyed this crash course in these different modules. The ForgeBox ecosystem is vast and wonderful. Next time you have a need, open up https://www.forgebox.io and check to see what the community has already contributed. Let's end today with an introduction to CFFractal, an API marshalling module.

At Ortus Solutions, we love the holidays, and we wanted to gift you a gift of developer productivity, we will share a few tips and tricks that will keep giving all year around. In this series we'll be giving you 12 ContentBox tips. Keep your eye out for other 12 tips of Christmas series on our blog, including a new one this year, 12 modules of Christmas on ForgeBox.

Day 12 - ContentBox Content Galore - A lot of people are asking Ortus for information on ContentBox, so we had a month long roadshow for ContentBox. We have a lot of Webinars, and some great Blog posts diving into whats new with ContentBox and some hands on how to's as well. 

 

We've talked about what packages are, how to create them and how to publish them on Forgebox.  Now that you have the basics down, we've got some special ninja kung foo magic that will let you crank out modules with almost no effort at all.  We obviously can't implement the module for you, but there is a lot of boilerplate around creating the Git repo, scaffolding out files, setting up tests, and publishing.  We can turn all that boilerplate into 2 commands. **

** Some one-time setup required