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Why your LLM app feels slow (even when the API ''works'')

calendar_today May 6, 2026 person Jim Allen Wallace domain redis

You ship a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) feature, monitoring is green, and every endpoint returns 200. But users keep complaining the app feels sluggish, and your own dogfooding confirms it: there’s a multi-second pause before anything renders,…

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