Words you know: complete the sentences

swamped · memory leak · deep work · bloat · failover

• The old backend application started to ____ after running for three weeks without a restart.
• We noticed a severe ____ in the authentication service that consumed all available RAM.
• When the primary server in London went down, the system did a quick ____ to the backup in Bristol.
• Jason was completely ____ with support tickets during the major outage in Seattle.
• Karen prefers to work without interruptions during her daily hours of ____ in the Austin office.

Remember: Past perfect continuous

• Jessica [had been debugging / was debugging] the application for hours before the server crashed in Chicago.
• We [had been monitoring / monitored] the network traffic all night when the alert arrived.
• Why [had Mark been running / was Mark running] those heavy queries before the database failed?
• The developers [had been investigating / investigated] the memory leak for days before finding the culprit.

Remember: Narrative tenses

• While Andrew [was reviewing / reviewed] the log file, the alarm went off in Boston.
• The team [found / was finding] the bug after they analyzed the request ID.
• When the manager arrived in the Seattle office, everyone [was working / worked] on the incident.
• Rachel [had already closed / closed] the ticket when the client called back from London.

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