Ben Nadel

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• IntersectionObserver API Performance: Many vs. Shared In Angular 11.0.5

  Posted on Apr 6, 2021 at 5:37 AM

  @Ted, Hey man! So good to hear from you! Things, as always, are an adventure here (which has its ups and downs). V7 is gaining momentum; so I'm here on the V6 side of things still fighting to innovate and advocate for the customers that are still using it. There's still some fight left in ... read more »

• A Peek Into The Interstitial Cost Of Microservices

  Posted on Apr 6, 2021 at 5:36 AM

  @David, Yes, there is definitely an operating cost associated with this stuff, which is part of our calculation. Our platform is fairly large and complex, so a lot of the stuff gets a bit hand-wavey. However, as someone on platform estimated for me, every microservice that we can merge bac... read more »

• Things I Regret: Returning Modified Data In API Response Payloads

  Posted on Apr 6, 2021 at 5:33 AM

  @Bilal, A GraphQL context is interesting. And, I think different enough to have different rules. Since GraphQL allows the client to tell the server what it needs , I think you get less coupling, in general, to any particular end-point. After all, there really are no "end points&quo... read more »

• Rethinking Error Type Schemas And Naming Conventions In My ColdFusion Application

  Posted on Apr 6, 2021 at 5:28 AM

  @Brad, I think it's nice that we can catch on dot-delimited prefixes in the code. But, I haven't really worked that into my error handling yet in any way. Over on Twitter, Mingo Hagen was talking about his error-type schema, and how he puts things like validationError on the front so t... read more »

• Rethinking Error Type Schemas And Naming Conventions In My ColdFusion Application

  Posted on Apr 5, 2021 at 9:19 AM

  @Brad, 1000% I would love the ability to nest errors as well. Today, I hack that in using the extendedInfo . Basically, I will often jam a low-level error into the extendedInfo using serializeJson( low_level_error ) . This makes the errors harder to read in the log aggregator. But, I... read more »

• A Peek Into The Interstitial Cost Of Microservices

  Posted on Apr 3, 2021 at 10:04 AM

  @All, There's a ticket on the Lucee Dev site about improved connection pooling for the CFHttp tag: https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-2199 I don't really understand things at such a low-level; but, it's possible this would also impact the performance of having Lucee call ... read more »

• Why I've Been Merging Microservices Back Into The Monolith At InVision

  Posted on Apr 3, 2021 at 7:33 AM

  @All, If anyone is curious, I just merged another Go service back into our ColdFusion monolith: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4020-a-peek-into-the-interstitial-cost-of-microservices.htm This recent subsumption was very interesting (to me) because it was very small in scope: two Go rou... read more »

• JavaLoader Needs Access To Internal ColdFusion Java Components In ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on Apr 1, 2021 at 8:34 AM

  @Gavin, Ha ha, small world :D... read more »

• Consuming Sparse, Unpredictable "omitempty" Golang JSON Payloads Using Null Coalescing In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.48

  Posted on Mar 30, 2021 at 5:53 AM

  @All, Over the weekend, I realized that I accidentally discovered that my mental model for the safe navigation operator was incomplete. I always thought it tested the left operand only. However, it appears to test both the left and right operands when short-circuiting: https:... read more »

• Consuming Sparse, Unpredictable "omitempty" Golang JSON Payloads Using Null Coalescing In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.48

  Posted on Mar 30, 2021 at 5:50 AM

  @Hugh, 100% It's a great operator. Though, I also do use the <cfparam> tag for a lot of the form-value defaulting. That's what I love about ColdFusion - so many powerful options!... read more »

• The Elvis / Null Coalescing Operator Can Sometimes Replace The Safe Navigation Operator In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Mar 27, 2021 at 6:15 PM

  @All, On a related note, I just realized that my mental model for the safe navigation operator has been incomplete! I always thought it evaluated the left operand when deciding whether or not to evaluate the right operand. However, it appears to look at both: https://www.bennadel.com... read more »

• Safe Navigation Operator Works In Comparison Expression Even When NULL In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Mar 27, 2021 at 6:13 PM

  @All, So, in the above post, I used the safe navigation operator in a way that I didn't even realize was surprising at the time. In the example where I did this: dump( variables?.nully == 3 ); ... that actually didn't jive with my mental model , but I didn't see it when I wrote thi... read more »

• An Opinionated Guide To Handling Pull Requests (PRs) On My Team

  Posted on Mar 23, 2021 at 6:48 AM

  @All, For anyone interested in how this plays into velocity, here's a post that speaks to that a bit: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4014-the-coldfusion-monolith-allows-my-team-to-move-fast-and-deploy-hella-often.htm While not an apples-to-apples comparison of my team to other teams, I ... read more »

• My Docker For Mac File IO Is 68-Times Slower Than It Is In Production

  Posted on Mar 23, 2021 at 5:47 AM

  @Charles, Sounds like a plan :D... read more »

• Why I've Been Merging Microservices Back Into The Monolith At InVision

  Posted on Mar 23, 2021 at 5:08 AM

  @Dmitry, Oh, that's awesome! Thank you :D... read more »

• Working Code Podcast - Episode 014: Zen And The Art Of Pull Requests

  Posted on Mar 22, 2021 at 8:21 AM

  @All, If anyone wants to see my strongly held beliefs written out, here they are: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4013-an-opinionated-guide-to-handling-pull-requests-prs-on-my-team.htm Of course, if you want to hear them discussed - and pushed-back against - please listen to the episo... read more »

• Porting Lucee CFML's SystemOutput() Function Over To Adobe ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 21, 2021 at 8:52 AM

  @Charles, It's an interesting idea. I can tell you that from my standpoint, where I am using the output streams for log aggregation , the type of stream - out vs err - don't actually make a difference. This is because we are using "structured logging", where we're outputting... read more »

• Extending A Distributed Lock TTL Using CFThread, Redis, And Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Mar 21, 2021 at 5:43 AM

  @Paolo, As a fun exercise, I took a go at porting the SystemOutput() function over to Adobe ColdFusion: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4012-porting-lucee-cfmls-systemoutput-function-over-to-adobe-coldfusion.htm... read more »

• Extending A Distributed Lock TTL Using CFThread, Redis, And Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Mar 19, 2021 at 1:02 PM

  @Paolo, Ahh, right. Perhaps you could replace the systemOutput() with a writeLog() and write it a log file instead. You could also dip down in the Java layer and grab the system output object - it's been a while since I've done it, but I think you can do something like: createObject... read more »

• Extending A Distributed Lock TTL Using CFThread, Redis, And Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Mar 19, 2021 at 11:41 AM

  @Paolo, I think most of this code should be Adobe ColdFusion compatible. I think the only thing you might have to change is the "fat arrow" syntax functions: () => { ... } to become: function() { } But, that might be all you have to change.... read more »