4 Simple Steps to Detect & Fix Slow Rails Requests

In Blink, Malcom Gladwell’s book on split-second decisions, Gladwell tells the story of how the Emergency Department at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital changed their process for diagnosing chest pain. Dr. Brendan Reilly instituted a simple test to determine whether a patient was suffering from a heart attack. It combined just 4 questions with the results of an ECG. This simple test was 70% better than the barrage of questions previously asked by hospital staff to identify patients that weren̵...

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