Choose the right word

• We implemented strict ___ to prevent clients from spamming the London API. [rate limiting / backpressure / headroom]
• Reactive streams helped our Seattle service handle ___ from slow database writes. [backpressure / hot spot / burst]
• Our Boston infrastructure prepared for peak ___ during the Black Friday sale. [peak load / elastic / absorb]
• The Austin servers had enough ___ to process the unexpected traffic surge. [headroom / load shedding / hot spot]
• During the outage, we performed ___ in Chicago to keep core services alive. [load shedding / rate limiting / backpressure]
• Database sharding created a ___ on shard zero because of celebrity user profiles. [hot spot / burst / peak load]
• When the cache failed, database CPU began to ___ instantly. [saturate / absorb / throttle]
• A sudden ___ in demand hit our London servers right after the podcast aired. [spike in demand / traffic surge / headroom]
• Our new Kubernetes setup is fully ___ and scales down at night. [elastic / hot spot / saturate]
• The AWS cluster was able to ___ the massive traffic surge without failing. [absorb / saturate / shard]
• A massive traffic ___ in Seattle caused our load balancer to drop connections. [surge / burst / headroom]
• A short traffic ___ tested the limits of our caching layer in Boston. [burst / spike in demand / hot spot]

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