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Welcome to the November Ortus Newsletter! This month has been full of exciting updates, insightful blog posts, and important announcements to keep you informed and inspired.Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, there’s something here for everyone. Let's dive into this month's highlights!

We’re excited to announce the release of Beta 24, packed with powerful new features, essential bug fixes, and impactful improvements that enhance performance and security. This release brings more robust logging capabilities, enhanced configuration flexibility, and new query-handling methods to streamline your development experience. We’ve also squashed several parsing bugs, ensuring smoother code execution.

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, a database that scales seamlessly is crucial for growing businesses. Whether you're experiencing seasonal traffic spikes, entering new markets, or launching new products, your database must keep up with increasing demands without compromising performance or user experience. However, scaling databases presents significant hurdles, from hardware limitations to performance bottlenecks.

This post explores the common challenges businesses face when...

We’ve been working on a fun new library to make WebSockets easier for CFML (and BoxLang) developers. WebSockets are incredibly powerful for real-time applications, but CF developers have historically lagged behind other languages in adopting this technology. With SocketBox, we’re addressing this gap by providing a solution that is easy to implement, much like Socket.io for Node.js apps.

The latest release of BoxLang, Beta 23, marks a significant step forward in our journey to create the ultimate dynamic language for the JVM. Packed with powerful new features, important bug fixes, and thoughtful optimizations, this update is designed to make your development experience smoother, faster, and more reliable, especially after now starting to take 100s of comments and bug reports from our community.

We’re thrilled to have launched the new TestBox website and TestBox 6.0! If you haven’t had a chance to explore yet, visit TestBox to discover updated documentation, powerful resources, and features that make testing more efficient than ever.

In a rapidly evolving digital world, maintaining performance, security, and scalability for ColdFusion applications is more challenging than ever. Whether you're using Lucee or Adobe ColdFusion, legacy systems can become a bottleneck for growth, innovation, and user satisfaction. The need to future-proof your ColdFusion applications has never been more critical.

But where do you start?

The Hidden Costs of an Outdated ColdFusion Application

As you...

The Hidden Costs of In-House Database Management

Opting for in-house database management involves more than just a salary. Here are some often-overlooked costs associated with maintaining your own DBA team.

1. High Salaries and Benefits

Hiring skilled DBAs is expensive. According to industry reports, the average salary of a DBA in the U.S. can range from $85,000 to over $130,000 per year, depending on experience and expertise. When you add ...

ColdFusion has long been a reliable platform for building web applications, but like any technology, it requires maintenance and modernization over time. Whether you're using Lucee or Adobe ColdFusion, it’s critical to recognize the signs that your application is no longer meeting today’s standards in performance, security, and scalability. Let’s explore five clear indicators that it’s time to modernize your ColdFusion application and how ColdFusion consulting can help breathe new life into y...

**Did you know ColdBox provides flexible ways to build routes using structs?** In this tip, we’ll cover how to use the `event.buildLink()` and `event.route()` methods for named routes, a feature that’s especially handy when working with dynamic URLs.