Wayne and Steve were on the morning meeting. The whole first part of the meeting was talking about plans for the size and structure of our databases. Some of the databases are getting huge and have millions and millions of records. We talked about either purging some of the data, breaking things into smaller and smaller pieces (corp specific datasource project), or even having storage data and live data. We don't really want to get rid of it, but like the analogy of water, snow, and ice. There are times and seasons for the data and we could help setup a usable plan to go from water (active and current) into snow (less used and more stable) and finally into ice (solid, frozen, and historic).

All of the databases get used every day... we also need to think to the future and plan for what some of those companies will look like 20 years from now. One of the biggest pieces of the data is actually the history of who did what to the data (underlying audit trail and system actions history stuff). Very interesting.

Steve and Wayne were talking about harnessing the users clicks - small actions done by users and allow those clicks to be used to accomplish other behind the scenes tasks. Basically adding a small load to harness each click to help get the work or load done. Migrating records, building up aggregates moving data from live to storage databases. Shared tasks, individual tasks, queue them up and let them keep going - let the users move the data as they work in the system.

When you work in technology, you feel like you on the cutting edge every day. That is a pro and a con. Things are changing all the time and you have to keep up or get passed up and/or outdated. We need to keep looking toward the future.

Towards the end of the meeting, we had to look at some of the new databases and sites for the new VPS on data 8. Wayne migrated those pieces, just this morning. He was talking about live environments, test environments, and dev (for developers and set to specific code branches) environments. Lots of cool options. Still figuring everything out.