fix: rotate which provider is measured first each round - #95
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Serialising the measurements (chainstacklabs#93) removed cross-request contention but introduced a position bias: the first request through the gate is reliably slower than the ones behind it, and without rotation that cost lands on whoever is first in ENDPOINTS every single round. Measured in production over 21h, all three probe regions, comparing the leading provider's first metric against its own later metrics on the same endpoint in the same round: fra1 eth_blockNumber p50 19.6ms vs eth_getTransactionReceipt 9.2ms sfo1 20.5ms vs 11.9ms sin1 19.0ms vs 7.0ms and a 13% / 25% / 19% tail over 100ms that no other position shows. Every other provider is flat across positions. The victim tracks list order, not the provider: it is Chainstack on Robinhood and Ethereum, Alchemy on Base. The cause is NOT established. It does not reproduce from a cluster running the same code against the same endpoint — not with the same 32-way concurrency, not with 4 concurrent WebSocket handshakes alongside (the gate-exempt path), not on a process-cold first request, and not under a 250m CPU / 400Mi limit matched to the Vercel sandbox. Each of those reproduced at most +0.6ms against the ~+10ms seen in production. So this does not try to remove the cost, only the bias. Rotating the lead position once per cron period gives every provider an equal share of the penalty, so the ranking reflects providers rather than their position in a config list. Removing the cost itself needs a diagnostic inside the Vercel runtime, which is out of scope here. Keyed on wall-clock quantised to the cron period, because each invocation is a fresh process with no memory of the previous round. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe metrics handler now rotates provider order by the current three-minute cron period. The change adds the rotation interval configuration, applies the rotated order to collection tasks, and adds an executable validation script. ChangesProvider rotation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to The provider-order rotation is covered by focused tests, and the remaining issues are limited to minor documentation and type-annotation cleanup. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MetricsHandler
participant rotate_providers
participant ProviderCollectionTasks
MetricsHandler->>rotate_providers: Pass configured providers and wall-clock time
rotate_providers-->>MetricsHandler: Return rotated provider order
MetricsHandler->>ProviderCollectionTasks: Create tasks using rotated providers
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In `@config/defaults.py`:
- Line 29: Annotate the CRON_PERIOD_SECONDS class attribute with ClassVar[int],
reusing the existing ClassVar import in the module.
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- Around line 20-24: Add concise one-line Google-style docstrings to both the
providers and main functions, describing their respective responsibilities while
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| # Read crons fire every 3 minutes (see the schedules in vercel*.json). | ||
| # Used to quantise the provider rotation so every metric in a round agrees | ||
| # on the ordering, and so the lead position advances once per round. | ||
| CRON_PERIOD_SECONDS = 180 |
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Add ClassVar[int] to CRON_PERIOD_SECONDS.
The existing ClassVar import can support the annotation. Ruff does not require it, but the project guidelines require annotations for new code.
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In `@config/defaults.py` at line 29, Annotate the CRON_PERIOD_SECONDS class
attribute with ClassVar[int], reusing the existing ClassVar import in the
module.
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Add docstrings to both functions.
providers and main have no Google-style docstrings. Add concise one-line docstrings.
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def providers(n: int) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+ """Create named provider fixtures."""
return [{"name": f"p{i}"} for i in range(n)]
def main() -> None:
+ """Validate provider rotation invariants."""
base = 1_786_000_000.0As per coding guidelines, “Use PEP 8 style guide with Google-style docstrings and type hints on all functions.” As per path instructions, “Google-style docstrings on all public functions and classes.”
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| def providers(n: int) -> list[dict[str, Any]]: | |
| return [{"name": f"p{i}"} for i in range(n)] | |
| def main() -> None: | |
| def providers(n: int) -> list[dict[str, Any]]: | |
| """Create named provider fixtures.""" | |
| return [{"name": f"p{i}"} for i in range(n)] | |
| def main() -> None: | |
| """Validate provider rotation invariants.""" | |
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Google-style docstrings to both the providers and main functions, describing
their respective responsibilities while preserving their existing behavior and
type hints.
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Problem
Serialising the measurements in #93 removed cross-request contention, but introduced a position bias: the first request through the gate is reliably slower than the ones behind it, and without rotation that cost lands on whoever is first in
ENDPOINTS— every round, forever.Measured in production over 21h with all three regions on the fixed code, comparing the leading provider's first metric against its own later metric, same endpoint, same round:
eth_blockNumbereth_getTransactionReceiptPlus a 13% / 25% / 19% tail over 100 ms that no other position shows. Every other provider is flat across positions.
The victim tracks list order, not the provider — it's Chainstack on Robinhood and Ethereum, Alchemy on Base. On Robinhood this alone makes
eth_blockNumberread p95 178 ms against 60–70 ms for that provider's other light methods.What this does not claim
The cause is not established. It does not reproduce from a cluster running the same code against the same endpoint. I tested, and each produced at most +0.6 ms against the ~+10 ms seen in production:
BlockchainState.get_data()already makes HTTPS calls before any measurement, so the process is warm regardless)I originally proposed a warm-up request to absorb a first-request cost. The evidence above falsified that premise, so it isn't in this PR.
What this does
Removes the bias, not the cost.
rotate_providers()advances the lead position once per cron period, so over any window longer than N periods each provider leads an equal share of rounds and the ranking reflects providers rather than their position in a config list.Keyed on wall-clock quantised to
CRON_PERIOD_SECONDS, because each invocation is a fresh process with no memory of the previous round — and quantising means every metric within a round agrees on the ordering.Verification
tests/test_provider_rotation.py— asserts equal lead share across 2/3/4/5 providers, stable ordering within a period, single-step advance per period, permutation safety, and degenerate inputs. Mutation-tested: pinningoffset = 0fails it.tests/test_measurement_gate.pystill passes.black,ruffclean; no new mypy errors vsmaster.Follow-ups, not in this PR
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