Refactoring a Decade‑Old Search Query Module: Identifying and Fixing Code Smells
The team inherited a ten‑year‑old search query module riddled with duplicate code, massive functions, bloated classes, and other smells, and by extracting utilities, splitting functions, separating responsibilities, tightening interfaces, parallelizing tokenization, and enforcing strict compiler warnings, they cut code size by 80%, reduced startup time, memory use, and latency by 26%, and dramatically improved stability and observability.