📅 2025-11-21 — Session: Refactored and Enhanced Python Backend Systems
🕒 19:50–20:40
🏷️ Labels: Debugging, Refactoring, Python, Backend, Normalization
📂 Project: Dev
Session Goal
The session aimed to debug and enhance various Python backend systems, focusing on error handling, cache management, data normalization, and system refactoring.
Key Activities
- Debugging Python Code: Identified root causes of errors and provided practical fixes with a testing checklist.
- Cache Management Enhancements: Improved design for cache management in the papers service, including code replacements and testing updates.
- Data Normalization: Developed a function to normalize paper lists into validated instances, incorporating deduplication and logging.
- Refactor Proposals: Proposed comprehensive refactors for file systems and TEI pipelines, focusing on performance, concurrency, and modularity.
- Module Implementations: Implemented modules for chunk and paper metadata handling, ensuring compatibility with existing systems.
Achievements
- Successfully debugged Python code with actionable fixes.
- Enhanced cache management and listing functionalities.
- Developed robust data normalization functions with error handling.
- Proposed and partially implemented refactor plans for improved system performance and modularity.
Pending Tasks
- Complete unit and acceptance testing for refactored systems.
- Implement remaining steps in the TEI pipeline refactor plan.