diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/keycloak/realm_exports/spiffworkflow-realm.json b/spiffworkflow-backend/keycloak/realm_exports/spiffworkflow-realm.json
index 9ca94dd8..97d495ca 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/keycloak/realm_exports/spiffworkflow-realm.json
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/keycloak/realm_exports/spiffworkflow-realm.json
@@ -3709,4 +3709,4 @@
   "clientPolicies" : {
     "policies" : [ ]
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/logging_service.py b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/logging_service.py
index aba695b8..4b9a7318 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/logging_service.py
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/logging_service.py
@@ -243,5 +243,5 @@ class DBHandler(logging.Handler):
             # so at some point we are going to insert logs.
             # we don't want to insert on every log, so we will insert every 100 logs, which is just about as fast as inserting
             # on every 1,000 logs. if we get deadlocks in the database, this can be changed to 1 in order to insert on every log.
-            if len(self.logs) % 1 == 0:
+            if len(self.logs) >= 100:
                 self.bulk_insert_logs()
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/process_instance_processor.py b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/process_instance_processor.py
index 51601115..63c5a25e 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/process_instance_processor.py
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/services/process_instance_processor.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ class BoxedTaskDataBasedScriptEngineEnvironment(BoxedTaskDataEnvironment):  # ty
         self._last_result = context
 
     def last_result(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        return self._last_result
+        return {k: v for k, v in self._last_result.items()}
 
     def clear_state(self) -> None:
         pass
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class NonTaskDataBasedScriptEngineEnvironment(BasePythonScriptEngineEnvironment)
         }
 
     def last_result(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        return self.state
+        return {k: v for k, v in self.state.items()}
 
     def clear_state(self) -> None:
         self.state = {}
@@ -254,8 +254,13 @@ class NonTaskDataBasedScriptEngineEnvironment(BasePythonScriptEngineEnvironment)
         }
         task.data = {k: v for k, v in task.data.items() if k in task_data_keys_to_keep}
 
+        if hasattr(task.task_spec, "_result_variable"):
+            result_variable = task.task_spec._result_variable(task)
+            if result_variable in task.data:
+                self.state[result_variable] = task.data.pop(result_variable)
 
-class CustomScriptEngineEnvironment(BoxedTaskDataBasedScriptEngineEnvironment):
+
+class CustomScriptEngineEnvironment(NonTaskDataBasedScriptEngineEnvironment):
     pass
 
 
@@ -685,9 +690,13 @@ class ProcessInstanceProcessor:
 
     def spiff_step_details_mapping(self) -> dict:
         """SaveSpiffStepDetails."""
-        bpmn_json = self.serialize()
-        wf_json = json.loads(bpmn_json)
-        task_json = {"tasks": wf_json["tasks"], "subprocesses": wf_json["subprocesses"]}
+        # bpmn_json = self.serialize()
+        # wf_json = json.loads(bpmn_json)
+        task_json: Dict[str, Any] = {
+            # "tasks": wf_json["tasks"],
+            # "subprocesses": wf_json["subprocesses"],
+            # "python_env": self._script_engine.environment.last_result(),
+        }
 
         return {
             "process_instance_id": self.process_instance_model.id,
@@ -700,13 +709,7 @@ class ProcessInstanceProcessor:
     def spiff_step_details(self) -> SpiffStepDetailsModel:
         """SaveSpiffStepDetails."""
         details_mapping = self.spiff_step_details_mapping()
-        details_model = SpiffStepDetailsModel(
-            process_instance_id=details_mapping["process_instance_id"],
-            spiff_step=details_mapping["spiff_step"],
-            task_json=details_mapping["task_json"],
-            timestamp=details_mapping["timestamp"],
-            # completed_by_user_id=details_mapping["completed_by_user_id"],
-        )
+        details_model = SpiffStepDetailsModel(**details_mapping)
         return details_model
 
     def extract_metadata(self, process_model_info: ProcessModelInfo) -> None:
@@ -1490,16 +1493,42 @@ class ProcessInstanceProcessor:
         """Do_engine_steps."""
         step_details = []
 
+        tasks_to_log = {
+            "BPMN Task",
+            "Script Task",
+            "Service Task"
+            # "End Event",
+            # "Default Start Event",
+            # "Exclusive Gateway",
+            # "End Join",
+            # "End Event",
+            # "Default Throwing Event",
+            # "Subprocess"
+        }
+
+        def should_log(task: SpiffTask) -> bool:
+            if (
+                task.task_spec.spec_type in tasks_to_log
+                and not task.task_spec.name.endswith(".EndJoin")
+            ):
+                return True
+            return False
+
+        def will_complete_task(task: SpiffTask) -> None:
+            if should_log(task):
+                self.increment_spiff_step()
+
         def did_complete_task(task: SpiffTask) -> None:
-            self._script_engine.environment.revise_state_with_task_data(task)
-            step_details.append(self.spiff_step_details_mapping())
+            if should_log(task):
+                self._script_engine.environment.revise_state_with_task_data(task)
+                step_details.append(self.spiff_step_details_mapping())
 
         try:
             self.bpmn_process_instance.refresh_waiting_tasks()
 
             self.bpmn_process_instance.do_engine_steps(
                 exit_at=exit_at,
-                will_complete_task=lambda t: self.increment_spiff_step(),
+                will_complete_task=will_complete_task,
                 did_complete_task=did_complete_task,
             )