Practise the standard verbs for shedding load safely under extreme traffic.
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Fill in: 'Under extreme load, we ___ low-priority requests so critical traffic keeps flowing.'
We 'shed' requests — the standard, established collocation for deliberately rejecting load to protect a system. The other options aren't the recognised term here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ traffic by priority tier before deciding which requests get shed first.'
We 'classify' traffic — the standard collocation for categorising requests before applying policy. The other options are less idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ shed requests with a clear 503 rather than letting them time out silently.'
We 'reject' a request — the standard collocation for explicitly refusing it. The other options are less precise here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ CPU and queue depth to decide exactly when shedding should kick in.'
We 'watch' system signals — the standard collocation for monitoring the trigger conditions. The other options aren't idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'We ___ shedding thresholds after a real incident shows the old ones kicked in too late.'
We 'revise' thresholds — the standard collocation for updating a configured value based on evidence. The other options are less idiomatic here.