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Would you like to know how you can drop the request processing time for an action from 2 seconds to 0.2 seconds? With some excellent tools, some patience, and these tips, you too can speed up critical parts of your web application.

I recently had the opportunity to help a client (and all-around good guy) improve the efficiency of the API portion of his web application. His developer had done a great job with the logic and functionality, but they thought it would be a good idea to have me take a long look at the code to see what improvements I could make. Here are five tips you can use to speed up the slow requests in your Rails app.

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