Server meeting with a bunch of the guys. We had Steve, Wayne, Eric, Alan, John, and myself on the meeting. Later on, we were joined by others as well. There are some of my notes.

- Some of Steve's top 3 for the year was - 1) servers, 2) customer care,  3) look and feel

- On the auto Git updates... we are thinking that once a day may be enough... also doing this off hours.

- Idea  - kill the rej files, do the merge, check again, if rej files exist - do a hard replace

- Wayne and John are working together to cross share knowledge

- Eric - question about a build (manual process) vs an auto merge or auto build process

- Wayne - the more servers we get, the more time consuming and demanding the processes may be - trying to get to the automated testing levels (becoming a given)

- Light talks about file corruption and cascading bad code

- We have very interlinked code that is complex and has multiple usage modes - we really need the testing

- Some of our issues are singular... meaning they happen once or once in a blue moon - in general, most times thing flow pretty well

- There was some talks about different branches, staging servers, testing servers, etc. It still comes down to time and efforts.

- Our model gets even deeper, once you add all of the custom stuff per server

- The Wayne and John (virtual partnership) is going to get a second pair of eyes on the processes. Getting a different perspective.

- We have a Cloud Flare filter and/or blocker. That is good and bad. We are getting timeout issues when certain pages take a long time to load.

- Cory and Shari O. popped in and were talking about client needs and wanting to get to their data, even it it takes a long time.

- Steve was chiming in and talking about clients and their needs and being able to provide the data and services that they want.

- Wayne was talking about other threats that we are facing, including outside threats, hack attempts, and traffic outside of our direct control.

- We can't turn off the security to allow for clients to just have full access to their servers.

- Wayne was proposing that we look at the long running reports and pages and try to fix those pieces. Steve was then talking about how much time and efforts that would take to fix and modify those pages and reports.

- We have some pages that need page specific settings. Currently Cloud Flare (the frontend filter) has server settings but not page level settings for timeouts and such.

- Some of our efforts need to be on optimizing code and reports to make them run faster.

- Talks about security and firewalls.

- Updates on some of the bigger or global projects (big tables and prepping for cluster models). Wayne and Alan were talking about servers, code changes, and getting deployment and testing options.

- Emails and talking about mail servers

- Trying to work more as a team, communications, updates, and helping each other.