Weekly server meeting. Wayne, Cory, John, and I were there. Steve was listening in for a little bit and then had to bail out. We went over a number of  topics that were server related. We talked about the auto deploy process and I mentioned that yesterday, we had a couple of servers that deployed new code, right during the middle of the day. We were expecting it to happen after hours so it kind of surprised us.

We spent some time talking about a custom data extraction process for a client. They keep asking questions and we feel like we have delivered what was asked for. We need to wrap that project us so that all parties know that it is finished.

Wayne, John, and I spent some time in bit bucket (code repository) dealing with settings, groups, and users. Wayne showed me some special dumps that we can do on the developer or testing box. Without going too deep, there were some URL variables that we could add to get some dumps and server level variables. I did record more notes inside of the wayne_andersen folder on my local drive with the file name of developers_or_testing_box_dump_options.

We talked about running database updates and keeping a running version of the MySQL database up to date. We also talked about some special database updates that Eric is wanting to run and having Wayne and Eric run those updates specifically, as they will need more access and power than we want to grant to normal database connection users. The last topic was the size of the content server. We may need to start breaking that down into a smaller subset of servers vs just one big huge one. That is great. We didn't know the capacity of that server and now we are starting to see that. All part of the plan. Expand and contract as needed.