Billy Cravens

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Billy has been developing ColdFusion applications since version 4.0, for companies big and small, and today is a full-time consultant. He is a former DFWCFUG board member and current Houston CFUG manager. Before "framework" was a buzzword, Billy was using Fusebox, and uses all of MVC frameworks today. He has served as a technical reviewer on a number of titles by Wrox Publishing, including their only ColdFusion title. ColdFusion is his first love, but as a consultant, he also crafts solutions in PHP and C#.

Sessions

Cloud Fusion: Deploying to AWS for Strength and Stability

Level: 300
Track: None
Time: 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Day: 1
Room: Improving Enterprises 2

The challenges of hosting and capacity planning are slowly fading away, as developers can build solutions and deploy them to Amazon, Google, and more. Java-based solutions, such as ColdFusion, are quite simple to deploy, but they do come with challenges. This session will focus on Amazon Web Services, specifically on their Platform as a Service (PaaS), Elastic Beanstalk. We will take a look at Adobe ColdFusion, Railo, and Open BlueDragon. We'll also look at some of Amazon's additional services that add additional power to your apps, and the learn curve cost. Lastly, we'll review the recent Amazon outage, and determine how you can safely deploy to AWS and survive similar problems.