Wayne and I were on the morning meeting going over serves and what not. Wayne has some big plans and is even starting to experiment on different server configurations. The next servers that we spin up are going to have a Linux box to hold the database and a Windows box to do the web and Adobe ColdFusion stuff (server-side code). We also went over some other options and even goals of where we are headed. I've been trying to keep things separated, on purpose, for years. I'm feeling better about it and I'm more willing to bend and allow some new technologies to help us manage things better and more efficiently. Good progress.

Part of our server conversation was dealing with FTP (file transfer protocol), using Git repositories, Putty, Puppet, Nagios, etc. These are all server based pieces that allow for us to standardize, compare, and maintain from a single source. Some of the conversation was talking about getting rid of FTP and moving more to a repository based upload and sync for all of the servers.

After we got done talking about actual physical servers and configuration, we spent a good 45 minutes talking about potential changes in the database arena and what options we have available there. We were talking different engines, table types, transactional vs aggregate (summed up data), archived data, indexing, partitioning, etc. Lots of good conversation about table locking, row level locking, locking conflicts, query speed, etc. Pretty deep database stuff.