Prefer take over first

Take does not apply an order

app/workers/issue_placement_worker.rb

@@ -36,14 +36,14 @@ class IssuePlacementWorker
     Gitlab::ErrorTracking.log_exception(e, issue_id: issue_id, project_id: project_id)
     IssueRebalancingWorker.perform_async(nil, project_id.presence || issue.project_id)
   end
-  # rubocop: enable CodeReuse/ActiveRecord
 
   def find_issue(issue_id, project_id)
-    return Issue.id_in(issue_id).first if issue_id
+    return Issue.id_in(issue_id).take if issue_id
 
-    project = Project.id_in(project_id).first
+    project = Project.id_in(project_id).take
     return unless project
 
-    project.issues.first
+    project.issues.take
   end
+  # rubocop: enable CodeReuse/ActiveRecord
 end

app/workers/issue_rebalancing_worker.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ class IssueRebalancingWorker
     return if project_id.nil?
 
     project = Project.find(project_id)
-    issue = project.issues.first # All issues are equivalent as far as we are concerned
+    # All issues are equivalent as far as we are concerned
+    issue = project.issues.take # rubocop: disable CodeReuse/ActiveRecord
 
     IssueRebalancingService.new(issue).execute
   rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, IssueRebalancingService::TooManyIssues => e

changelogs/unreleased/ajk-issue-reposition-take.yml

+---
+title: Performance fix for issue placement
+merge_request: 43315
+author:
+type: performance