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April 4, 2006MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NETPosted 1577 days ago on April 4, 2006At Mix06, MySpace execs announced that they were serving 1.5 billion pages per day on ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. I noted in IT Week that figures like this make it hard to claim that Microsoft's web technology does not scale. Trouble is, if you go along to MySpace you'll find it full of pages with a .cfm extension, as used by ColdFusion. So what gives? Was the Mix06 announcement a shade deceptive? Not according to this post and comments, on Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET blog. Two interesting things. First, as part of a migration from ColdFusion some .cfm pages map to ASP.NET pages; the url has been preserved to avoid breaking links. Second, MySpace uses a product called BlueDragon, which lets you run ColdFusion pages on either J2EE or .NET - without using the official ColdFusion application server. In this case, the CFML markup is actually running on .NET. I should think this is fairly annoying for Macromedia/Adobe. Oddly enough, a ColdFusion architect told me in 2002 that the product might one day run on .NET. I would never have guessed that it would be an agile third party like New Atlanta that would do it, rather than Macromedia itself. Tags: myspace coldfusion mix06 dotnet Re: MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NETPosted 1577 days ago by Tim Anderson • • • Reply
It is amazing how many people don't read beyond the first sentence :-) Re: MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NETPosted 1460 days ago by David Levin • • www • ReplyInteresting. I wonder if that is part of the reason MySpace runs so slow. Isn't BlueDragon notorious for being much slower than the alternative (IIS + CF Server)? I guess it could also be that there are way too many simultaneous users. Re: MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NETPosted 1407 days ago by Cam • • www • ReplyJust go to shows you that it isnt as cracked up as it is meant to be. Re: MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NETPosted 1264 days ago by Pozycjonowanie • • www • ReplyJust go to shows you that it isnt as cracked up as it is meant to be. Your right it is. Keep up the good work. Greetings Re: MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NETPosted 1128 days ago by Daz • • • Reply
The problem more likely to be that myspace uses Fusebox which is a development framework for Coldfusion. |
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Re: MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NET
Posted 1577 days ago by anon • • • ReplyI am not sure without checking in the case of myspace, but there is a third party addon called "bluedragon" http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm which is gaining a lot of users. This allows you to write ColdFusion code (CFML) but run under .NET. Best of both worlds.
update: ok just checked and yes MySpace does use BlueDragon ... http://www.newatlanta.com/corporate/news/myspace_announce.jsp[reply]