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Being a new platform from Ortus, I wanted to take some time to dive in to the tech stack we are using to build CFCasts. Many people ask us how we would build a modern CFML site. Well, here's at least one answer.

At Ortus Solutions we are known for building open source projects for the ColdFusion (CFML) community such as ColdBox, CommandBox, ContentBox Modular CMS, ForgeBox and many more. All of those products are licensed under the Apache 2 license and are completely FREE to use and extend.

We love Digital Ocean for many reasons, that list of reasons includes a big one - Digital Ocean is powering our Production Infrastructure.

For a long time, Digital Ocean has been a great way to get affordable, powerful and simplified Cloud computing up and running. For as little as $5 per month you can get a nice little droplet ( VM ) up and running in seconds, to host your ColdFusion app, wordpress site ( excuse my language ) or even Docker instances or a full Docker Swarm. Digital Ocean keeps improving its offering, and this year, we committed to moving our production infrastructure over to Digital Ocean, and now I'm happy to say we've been running on Digital Ocean for months now, and things have never been better. We get a lot of questions about how our setup looks, so this post will give you a little more insight into our Production Infrastructure, powered by Digital Ocean.

 

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...

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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...

We are very excited to bring you a new commercial product release for the Ortus Family: Couchbase Lucee Extension  The Couchbase Lucee Extension allows you to natively connect to a

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We are pleased to release version  1.1.0 of our CFCouchbase SDK for using Couchbase NoSQL clusters in CFML applications.  1.1.0 is a minor release with bug fixes and enhancements.  You can view the release milestone

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

We have been working with Couchbase NoSQL Server for a while now 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 NoSQL and caching transactions.

Capabilities

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

• Add Couchbase functionality to any Railo application
• Install at the web context level or the server level (Available to all contexts)
• Create Cache connections in the Railo administrator to connect to any network-accessable Couchbase cluster
• Set and get objects from Couchbase via standard CFML functions and tags cachePut(), cacheGet(), <cfcache action="get|put">
• Fully supports all built-in Railo cache functions including wildcard filters
• Seamlessly distribute storage of the following to any bucket in a Couchbase cluster
  • Railo session storage
  • Railo client storage
  • Railo RAM resouce ram://...
• Seamlessly cache the following to any timeout-sensitive bucket in a Couchbase 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 executing user-defined queries against Couchbase views.
• Extremely lightweight and fast

 

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We are very excited to spring forth a new open source product for the Ortus Family: CFCouchbase SDK.  The CFCouchbase SDK is a CFML library for interacting with Couchbase NoSQL Server. It can be used by any CFML application or CFML framework to provide them with NoSQL, distributed caching, dynamic queries and many more capabilities. 

We have been working with Couchbase NoSQL Server for a while now 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 NoSQL and caching transactions.  We have extended their Java SDK and wrapped it in some dynamic CFML goodness.  We not only expose all of the capabilities of the Java SDK, but we also provide automatic CFML to Java serialization and deserializations, Querying DSL, and also a way to automatically serialize and deserialize ColdFusion Components CFCs.