Sliding Windowhard70 minDevOps / SRE Engineer

Deploy Streaming Window Anomaly

DevOps / SRE Engineer signal: sliding window + frequency map in a rolling deploy planner context. This is a ProdMatch-owned devops sre drill, framed as a March 2026 Stripe Release Platform simulation, not a copied platform question.

Company context

Stripe · Release Platform

Freshness

March 2026

Product surface

rolling deploy planner

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

Question

For rolling deploy planner, process a timestamp-ordered stream of pods. Find the longest contiguous window where at most k distinct risk labels appear and the total severity stays under budget.

Input

Array of events {label, severity} and integers k, budget.

Output

Maximum window length satisfying both constraints.

Constraints

1 <= events.length <= 300000
1 <= k <= 50
Severity values are positive integers.

Concepts

blast-radius graphs
alert dedupe
rolling windows
sliding window
frequency map
stream processing

labels: A,B,A,C with k=2 and budget=7 -> longest valid window length is 3

Approach

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Clean Solution

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