Mobile Engineer signal: hash map + dedupe in a local cache eviction context. This is a ProdMatch-owned mobile engineer drill, framed as a March 2026 Adobe App Performance simulation, not a copied platform question.
Company context
Adobe · App Performance
Freshness
March 2026
Product surface
local cache eviction
ProdMatch interview simulation based on product-team patterns; not a claim of a real company question.
For local cache eviction, collapse duplicate entries by external ID. Keep the newest event per ID and return IDs in first-seen order.
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Output
Constraints
Concepts
[(a,1),(b,1),(a,3)] -> [(a,3),(b,1)]
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