Which changes increased load on downstream systems without increasing top-line traffic?

Identify changes that increased load on downstream systems without increasing top-line traffic. Examples: lower cache hit ratio causing more database calls, new retry behavior amplifying queue pressure, schema change increasing storage I/O.

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