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Latency rose from 100 ms to 5 s without a deployment. What do you check first?
Tests whether you look at what changed besides code -- traffic volume, a downstream dependency's health, DB query plans (stale stats causing a plan flip), or GC behavior -- since a latency jump with no deploy means the cause is external or environmental, not a code regression.
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