Performance regression in version 8.11.0 #365
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Describe the bug
Upgrading to version 8.11.0 or greater causes the client initialization to take much longer. We noticed that the time to initialize on some of our services went from ~1 second to 15-20 seconds.
To reproduce
Upgrade to version 8.11.0 of the sdk on service. I have noticed that this problem is much more noticeable in our production environment than staging, likely due to the amount of feature flags defined in our production environment.
Expected behavior
The time to initialize stay consistently at about 1-2 seconds.
Logs
After upgrading to 8.12.0.
After reverting back to 8.6.0
SDK version
After testing different version it appears that this happens on any version >= 8.11.0. I have pinned our version to 8.10.2 for now and it does not happen.
Language version, developer tools
This happened on 2 different services, one running Ruby 3.4.8 and one running Ruby 3.3.8.
OS/platform
Running in docker containers based on the official Debian Bookworm Ruby images.
Additional context
I suspect that this change is causing the performance regression.