Have you signed up for the public beta of ColdFusion Next yet? Here is your chance to try out the game changing release of ColdFusion.

Here are some of the amazing highlights

1.  Installer size is down from 1 GB to 150MB! It is just a zip installer so that you can quickly get started.

2. The startup time is now only 5 seconds!

3. You can talk to AWS and Azure services with ease using the same productive API interface.

Here is the grand vision that ColdFusion Next, code named Project Stratus, carries:

“To be the modernized platform of choice for building cloud-native microservice applications with absolute focus on ease of use without getting locked to a particular cloud vendor (multi-cloud).”

What are you waiting for? Try out your favorite server side technology as it becomes even more powerful and productive.

ColdFusion Package Manager: With ColdFusion Next, you can only include the packages that you need to build your own nimble and lightweight ColdFusion server. For instance, if you only need to access the database along with the core language, you just need to install the database package along with the core runtime.

ColdFusion Setup Tool: You can now script every single setting in the administrator using the cfsetup tool right from the command line making you extremely productive. What’s more, you can easily export settings from one server and import into another right within the cfsetup tool.

Cloud APIs for AWS and Azure: Be it databases on the cloud, or NoSQL, or Queues/Notification or storage or even caching services, ColdFusion Next provides the not just the most easy to use productive interface with these services, it also helps you future proof your cloud application that helping you move your application across AWS or Azure with little no code change.

PMT is now cloud ready: Performance Monitoring Toolset can now track cloud services and identify potential bottlenecks as you interact with the cloud services.

And there’s more! Be sure to check out the public beta.