Joby John talks about “ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Episode Highlights
Biz side of CF
Hiring CF developers
Attitude is key
Skills can be learned
Training new people on CF - out of college or from other languages 
Versions used by their customers
Mostly CF 2016, some CF 2018
Some even older versions
Why not the newest version?
Cost of CF
Cost of migration
Why upgrade then?
Way better performance and security in CF 2018
Scaling team
Double team size
Fast to scale down in future too
Knowledge transfer
New trends in frontends on top of CF
jQuery to React or Angular 
Latest trends in tech 
Better UI
CF backend
Fashions in IT
CF growing
From smaller projects to enterprise projects
Migrating away from CF?
No - Too costly to recode in other languages such as Python or Java
CF scales well
Testing
What versions are people migrating to
ACF to Railo or  Lucee 
Only small projects
Bigger customers more focused on the code base investment than server software cost
Cloud licensing issue of ACF vs Lucee
CF 2020 solves this for ACF
Adobe partnership program
Adobe CF certification program
Coming to CF Summit India 2020
Why are you proud to use CF?    
The first customer we worked with was using ColdFusion to develop their web application and from there we worked with many customers who use ColdFusion. We were able to build a strong team of ColdFusion to help our customers from there
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?  
We are planning to hire more college freshmen this year and provide them ColdFusion training. 
Invite more non-Indian partners to the summit
More college classes in CF - support for this. 
What did you enjoy at CF Summit India? 
It was a pleasure to meet a lot of developers and talk to them. It was a pleasure to bring my ColdFusion team and they were so excited to see new trends in Coldfusion and see an active Coldfusion community in India

Mentioned in this episode
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Bio
Joby John is CEO of Techversant Infotech, a 200 person consulting firm specializing in ColdFusion Technology based in Kerala, India and Alberta, Canada.  He is a young and vibrant leader. He is responsible for corporate vision, strategy, business growth and total customer satisfaction.

Links
https://www.techversantinfotech.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jzz44
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jobyjohn/
Email  joby.john (at) techversantinfotech.com