“What I do have is a particular set of skills, a set of skills which makes me a nightmare for slow Rails applications like you.” For the last 4 years, I’ve been working on making Rails applications faster and more scalable. I teach workshops, I sell a course, and I consult. If you do anything for a long period of time, you start to see patterns. I’ve noticed four different factors that prevent software organizations from improving the performance of their Rails applications, and I’d...