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Came into a project. Legacy chasing legacy. Spaghetti so tangled you could taste it.
Reports took 30 seconds to load. The team was genuinely afraid to click a button during business hours. What if the database goes down.
Opened EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Everything became clear. N+1 everywhere, zero indexes, business logic scattered across controllers so badly even the devil couldn't find his way around.
Three months and the fixes: DDD, indexes, Celery, event-driven PDF. Now 1.5 seconds. CPU down 60%.
They click the button without fear now.
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