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16 ways to improve your code after it’s ‘finished’
Conspect of an article from InfoWorld by Peter Wayner
Lint
Use Lint tool to make an automatical “code review” based on rules.
Profile
Optimize your code using profiler.
Remove debugging tools
Remove unnecessary logging.
Analyze with AI
CodeGuru from Amazon is tool, that looks for issues and have AI competence.
Curate data
Optimize database for speed and stability.
Optimize data flow
Maybe your application can profit from a cache.
Optimize data
Reduce data amount needed by your application. E.g. don't save photos in RAW format. Or if the user uploads such photos - restrict him to use only optimized images.
Add an API
API toolkits like Swagger can help you to create APIs if it can be necessary for your application.
Bundle into a library
Sometimes it can be worth to extract some code to a library (or many libraries).
Document
Write documentation for your code.
Split into microservices
Splitting the application into many microservices can help to make the project more granular.
Containerize
Containers can be very handy in some situations.
Deploy to serverless
Now that serverless computing options are growing more common, it may be smart to extract the essential functions from your code and deploy them to a serverless platform like AWS Lambda or Azure Functions. The bills are computed by the call, so you’ll pay nothing for fallow periods when there’s no incoming traffic. If your code is already well constructed and doesn’t require any local state, it is often easy to extract the business logic from your app and rewrap it in a simple function call used by a serverless system.
Deploy to mobile
Sometimes there are a good reasons to make a native app from a web based application.
Move to web
Sometimes it can be also worth to go in the other direction: from mobile to the web.
Keep going
Make the refactoring process permanent.
