Design a queueing and backpressure strategy for bursty traffic.

Instruction: Describe how you would keep bursty traffic from overwhelming the system.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe how you would keep bursty traffic from overwhelming the system.

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I would define admission priorities, queue isolation where needed, and backpressure signals that kick in before the system collapses. Bursty traffic needs explicit policy for which requests can wait, which should degrade gracefully, and which must keep a protected path.

I would also avoid one...

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