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Arrays & Hashingmedium45 minBackend Engineer

RateLimit Duplicate Signal Resolver

Backend Engineer signal: hash map + dedupe in a tenant rate limits context. This is a ProdMatch-owned backend engineer drill, framed as a April 2026 CRED API Gateway simulation, not a copied platform question.

Company context

CRED · API Gateway

Freshness

April 2026

Product surface

tenant rate limits

ProdMatch interview simulation based on product-team patterns; not a claim of a real company question.

Question

For tenant rate limits, collapse duplicate calls by external ID. Keep the newest event per ID and return IDs in first-seen order.

Input

  • Array of events {id, version}.

Output

  • Deduped IDs and their kept version.

Constraints

  • 1 <= events.length <= 200000
  • Versions are comparable integers.

Concepts

  • idempotency
  • queues
  • rate limiting
  • hash map
  • dedupe
  • stable ordering

[(a,1),(b,1),(a,3)] -> [(a,3),(b,1)]

Approach

Try framing your own approach first. The 30 seconds you think before peeking is where learning happens.

Clean Solution

Reveal the approach first.

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Common Mistakes

  • Do not sort if first-seen order is required.
  • Treat duplicate IDs with equal versions deterministically.

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