DevOps / SRE Engineer signal: greedy proof + sorting in a log compaction context. This is a ProdMatch-owned devops sre drill, framed as a May 2026 Intuit Observability simulation, not a copied platform question.
Company context
Intuit · Observability
Freshness
May 2026
Product surface
log compaction
ProdMatch interview simulation based on product-team patterns; not a claim of a real company question.
Rebalance spans across shards for log compaction. Each move has a cost equal to distance between shards. Compute minimum cost to make shard loads differ by at most one.
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loads [0,3,0] -> move one unit left and one right, cost=2
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