Railo Blog - Performance

Upgrading the JRE used in Railo

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:02:00 +0200

When you install Railo, the default JRE that comes with it is 1.6.0_01. So you might want to upgrade it some when. [More]

Struct addressing in Railo

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:27:00 +0200

There is a major difference in how Railo addresses structs in comparison to the CFML standard. The result is that implicit addressing, (as I call it) works in the CFML standard but not in Railo. This is an issue we are long aware of AND we will NOT fix it. [More]

Next relaunch with Railo

Thu, 08 May 2008 18:29:00 +0200

Just a quick note on another large website that has been launched with Railo. www.computerwoche.de with around 5,000,000 page impressions per month has been redesigned and relaunched with Railo on May 1st this year. Next to the dramatic performance improvement, the servers now run very stable. If you want to have a look just go to Computerwoche Germany
The site is hosted on the servers that already serve the 100,000,000 pi's of www.pcwelt.de. It runs on Railo 2.0.0.045 and is based on RedHat Linux with a MSSQL 2005 serving as the database server.

Query caching in Railo and CFMX

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:05:00 +0200

Caching queries is something that one should use since it can dramatically speed up the delivery of a page. [More]

Creating Railo archives

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:43:00 +0200

I have been asked several times to describe how to create and use a Railo archive. This entry also describes how to include images inside an archive. [More]

Big boost thanks to Railo

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:52:00 +0200

Before Christmas, Railo took another leap forward when it comes to major websites and feasibility. One of Germany's major IT-websites (www.pcwelt.de) which is created by IDG Communications AG, has been relaunched with Railo 2.0. PCWelt records around 50,000,000 pi per month. [More]

Digital world on a chip – fotoworld

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:07:00 +0200

The german digital imaging portal Chip Fotoworld has been redesigned and lifted from Coldfusion MX 7.0 to Railo 2.0 Professional.
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Performance again

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:45:00 +0200

Today another performance comparison was posted in a private blog. [More]

Application stuff

Wed, 02 May 2007 18:11:00 +0200

Railo 1.1 offers a new way of handling and more flexibility with auto include files. Auto include files for CFMX are application.cfm, application.cfc and onRequestEnd.cfm [More]

Silence

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:33:00 +0200

A major disadvantage of generated code is the size of the generated html. When you have something like <cfscript> this may not be an issue since the complete code generates no output unless you use something like echo() or writeOutput(). [More]

Lichtenstein, Europe

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:33:00 +0200

ICS Management GmbH in Liechtenstein is building it's new content management system's version on top of the Railo CFML application server.
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Strange Caching

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:14:00 +0200

A thing I noticed while playing with some performance tests is that MX has a strange behaviour when caching queries. Well in fact I guess it is not strange but worth mentioning. [More]

Performance Tuning Part III

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:14:00 +0200

In this entry I will address some simple performance tipps related to features of the current Railo 1.0 and the upcoming Railo 1.1. They are only different configuration tips and do not require a different type of programming. [More]

Performance Tuning Part II

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:23:00 +0200

Our car now runs faster since we tuned it a little bit by turning off scope cascading. Now we slightly change the way of driving. CFML engines often generate a lot of output, which is not unintended, but is not allways usefull. I don't say that it is wrong, but in almost any case the output is a side effect of the programming style. I don't know if many of you know, that huge performance gains can be obtained just through different coding. [More]

Performance Tuning

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:03:00 +0200

Every developer once had to deal with performance issues. So in this and in the following blog entries I want to address the tuning of CFML sites in general and of Railo applications in special. I will make some examples and show the impact the tuning has on the execution time.
As mentioned in several other blogs and articles the execution time of one single template does not tell you a lot about the performance of a certain website. But let me put it this way. If your car drives 50mph at full speed, it does not tell you anything how fast you will get from A to B. (Maybe perhaps only the minimum time id would take: |ab|/50mph). Sometimes it depends on traffic other times on the weather or something totally different. But what if with some minor adjustments in your driving style and some allowed adjustments to the engine your car starts running at 80mph and you still have some options left? Well this still does not say anything about how fast you get from a to b, but alt least you know that on some sections of the road you will be able to drive faster. So let us start speeding up our car. [More]