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About Mike Brunt

Mike Brunt has been coding web applications since 1993 and began using ColdFusion at version 1.54 in 1995-6.  He designed and created the first on-line international industrial equipment mart in 1997 (Power Bank International) at the request of a Cummins Engine Company subsidiary.  In 1998 he worked with Kodak and Lucent Technologies to create a pioneering web based TeleRadiology cross-consult portal when Radiologists and Primary Care Physicians could review patient medical images.  Allaire recruited Mike in 1999 to join a ColdFusion-JRun consulting team.  This team was dispatched world-wide to help Allaire then Macromedia clients design and troubleshoot ColdFusion applications.  In 2001 Mike co-founded – Webapper Services LLC.  He now works independently, helping ColdFusion users worldwide to create strategies which ensure Enterprise level Adobe Server applications can be scaled effectively and efficiently.

10 Steps To A High Performing ColdFusion Application, Clustering ColdFusion

If ColdFusion applications were effectively load tested before being put into production, almost all if not literally all subsequent problems could be avoided.  Yet, in my experience less than 3% of CF applications do get effectively load tested, of course this does not only apply to ColdFusion but all other web/application paradigms. What I have found is that many organizations perceive load-testing to either be very expensive to do, mainly due to the high cost of such tools as LoadRunner or SilkPerformer and that creating load test scripts is overly complex and very time consuming.  With the appropriate tools neither is true.

What I will be demonstrating is the creation of a load test and the running of that load test against a real application.  The location of a problem and the mitigation of that problem and the resulting benefit.  Attendees to my session will hopefully go away with the perception that load-testing is effective and easy to configure and that the benefits of load-testing are huge.