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The database query is fast but the API takes 2 seconds. Where do you look?
Tests whether you check everything around the query -- serialization/deserialization cost, N+1 queries elsewhere in the request, downstream service calls, or connection pool acquisition wait -- since a fast query rules out the DB but says nothing about the rest of the request path.
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