Wayne pretty much ran the morning meeting today. As soon as I joined, Wayne, Steve, and Dustin were already on. Once we got started, the entire session was dealing with updates and upcoming changes that are available to us out in AWS (amazon web services) land. Kinda interesting.

We started the morning talking about photos, scans, and images and how those are stored currently. We moved to media/content (outside files) and then talked about ways of doing that kind of storage in the new environment.

Wayne was showing us how quickly he was able to copy whole servers (existing dedicated boxes at Newtek) over to the AWS environment. He was also showing us how some of the resource management (CPU's, memory, and load balancing) were working as he spun up other instances. Very quick and very powerful. We are going to be able to speed up our time to market by leaps and bounds. Lots of talk about current model, options, and needs vs upcoming/future model, options, and new needs.

There was quite a bit of time spent talking about existing flow, hot fixes, FTP (file transfer protocol), and code repositories and deployment options. Lots of talk about the advantages of building a testing library and running tests and unit tests to increase the level of comfort, efficiency, and confidence for the developers and the clients (system users).

Wayne was using the term "tooling" and using the new tools and/or tooling environment to help standardize environments, processes, and expectations.

We went over some possible problems with incomplete data and who is going to help mange and/or watch what pieces of the system. It really will be, and currently is, a giant team effort. We need all of the players to keep pulling their weight and doing what they do and how they do it. More and more talks about teams and cross training those teams.