Technical Blogs

By guest author Thorben Janssen The StackTrace is one of the key concepts in Java. It’s a call stack for the thread and lists all method calls since the start of the thread. You have probably seen its textual representation in your log file or console output. It gets printed to System.out whenever an exception […]

For many years the FusionReactor product documentation has been ran on a confluence server. We maintained our own server for many years and currently use the cloud version, but its never really been ticking all the boxes for our product documentation. For each major release of FusionReactor we have a separate confluence space on the […]

The Gatekeeper system has protected macOS users against malicious software since its introduction in OS X 10.7.3 (Lion). This system assures users that software comes from a trusted source and doesn’t contain malicious content. But how does it work? Introduction The Mac software ecosystem has historically been fairly untroubled by malicious viruses and software. This […]

Developing tools to automate what you do often is common sense. But what if you want to share your tools with other developers? As soon as you have something that relies on more than a simple script, you’re going to be faced with dependencies and distribution headaches. Docker can solve that. “Anything you do more […]

For a little while now I’ve had issues with DOM rendering performance within an enterprise scale product, built using Angular. I’ve always tried to follow some common approaches to improving and maintaining high performance within an Angular application. The main approaches I’ve taken to combat performance degradation over time within this application are as follows; Working […]

Introduction FusionReactor tracks calls to any logging implementation made within your application. These logs are captured within the request object and can be configured based on their log severity. We capture log statements for both Java frameworks and CF log statements; Java Frameworks SLF4J Log4J Logback Apache Commons Logging CFML log tags ColdFusion log tags […]

A few days ago I got an error with my ColdFusion 2018 server which I had not seen in many years. I had seen this error when running ColdFusion 9 many years ago but not for some time. I could not figure out what I had broken. After some googling it seemed to be that […]

In FusionReactor 8.1 we introduced the Ephemeral Data Service (EDS). This service allows you to register your transient / short-lived instances to the Enterprise Dashboard so they can all be monitored from a single location. Using EDS, you see each instance in your dashboard and have the ability to group these instances together to quickly […]

Since FusionReactor 8.2, users with Enterprise licenses (or better) can use Microsoft Active Directory to log in to FusionReactor. In this blog post, we’ll covere how to set this up. Introduction In FusionReactor 8.2, we changed the way we handle logging you in and out behind the scenes. We still have the Role/Password system, and […]

These days the development of software is a rapidly changing process. The introduction of cloud hosting and containerization has made big applications running in your server room a thing of the past. Where before you would maintain one or two big projects with a team of engineers dedicated to a single project. Now you have […]