Aaron Terry

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• Using A Task CFThread To Run And Restart Daemon CFThreads Indefinitely In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on May 5, 2021 at 7:04 AM

  @Ben, Did you leave this as an experiment or have you used this approach further? Looking at ways to keep a "persistent" consumer up and running to process Amazon SQS Messages.... read more »

• ColdFusion Custom Tag Performance Differences Between CFModule And CFImport In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Mar 17, 2021 at 11:11 PM

  Ok, found your thread in dev.lucee and I see you've been down the ram path. https://dev.lucee.org/t/cfmodule-vs-cfimport-radically-different-performance/7999/48... read more »

• ColdFusion Custom Tag Performance Differences Between CFModule And CFImport In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Mar 17, 2021 at 6:18 PM

  Ben, Random thought on this. Have you considered loading your custom tags into a ram disk onApplicationStart or something and then trying to use that as the path for your custom tags? Then lucee would be checking ram on every request instead of the disk. Might still be horrible, but though... read more »

• Using SMTP Headers To Send Custom MetaData Through Postmark In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 11, 2020 at 10:17 AM

  On sparkpost, it's the metadata struct within X-MSYS-API header. https://developers.sparkpost.com/api/smtp/#header-using-the-x-msys-api-custom-header Like Sendgrid's X-SMTP-API header .... you embed a JSON struct in that header that controls a slew of options and features, with custom ... read more »

• Including Custom SMTP Headers For Debugging Using CFMailParam In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 8, 2020 at 6:33 AM

  @Ben, No doubt, powerful stuff at your fingertips. We're on the tail end of an outbound email sending rearchitecture, so I've been neck deep in it for the past couple of months. Amazing how you can analyze it all. Happy building -- and maybe I'll see another blog post about your discoverie... read more »

• Including Custom SMTP Headers For Debugging Using CFMailParam In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 8, 2020 at 6:06 AM

  @Ben, @Ben, you can actually "Level Up" what you're doing here by taking advantage of the features that your email sending provider offers, Postmark for you. Looks like Postmark has a feature called Custom Metadata that you pass as SMTP headers -- exactly what you're doing here... read more »