JIT compilation flag activation
Your task
Your fleet has been running warm for days, no deploy, no scale event. At 14:00 you flip a feature flag that turns on a new code path in a hot request handler. Immediately, p99 on an already-warm, fully-scaled fleet spikes for ~3-4 minutes and then settles back to normal, with no replica or instance change. CPU briefly spikes during the window. The flag clearly triggered it, but nothing started cold. How do you triage and explain this 'cold start without a cold start,' and what do you do about it?
It covers
- Jit deopt
- Feature flag
- Warm fleet