Disemboweling the Megadon. 

This is a slow and tedious process and has many setbacks. The current setback should be an anti-pattern "the king is dead long live the king". We are killing the monolith by building a new monolith. But this one will be easy to de-tangle later because it was built smarter and as services this time.

My biggest win this week is database Joins. Figuring out a good way and modern technique to avoid doing an extremely costly and inefficient database operation.