Government Technology is running a story about how the city of Tigard, OR, recently completed a 24-month enterprise GIS implementation resulting in a centralized corporate geodatabase environment used by the police department, public works, community development, and more. Part of the solution is Crime Spotter, created by GeoNorth, and powered by ESRI GIS software and ColdFusion.
Former ColdFusion team member, Mike Brunt, has written an article for the Adobe Developer Connection entitled Using ColdFusion to enhance scalability and high availability. Mike covers high availability concepts, hardware considerations, clustering, and more. This one is well worth the read.