Started out the meeting with Cory asking some questions to Wayne and John. We went over the sales tax aggregate calculations, licenses, SOC2 audit reports, budgets, and starting into making a small performance matrix spreadsheet. See attached, just a quick start, but something to refine and work off of.

We talked quite a bit about Lucee and possibly moving in that direction. The topic then switched over to Docker images and how we could get some gains by flipping over to that type of a scenario. We could even use Docker images to run simulations and trainings for server based tasks, in a safe and secure environment without having to give full live access to all of the guys who would like to learn about server maintenance and tuning. We even talked about getting local Docker instances for Cory and Marisa to test things locally without having to have an actual testing server (paid server that just sits in between testing stuff). There was some talk about manual installs vs automated Docker images and instances and how to help standardize things. Anyways, some great conversations on cost savings and ideas moving forward.

We talked about the importance of good data and good test data. We also talked about going beyond the data and doing tests and simulations on how our clients are using and accessing their data. Trying to help smooth out the processes. Other topics discussed were dealing with configurations between data servers and databases. We also talked briefly about trying to move more and more settings over to DAO's (data or database access objects). Striving to be more and more efficient, where possible.