Sliding Windowhard70 minPlatform Engineer

Sandboxes Streaming Window Anomaly

Platform Engineer signal: sliding window + frequency map in a sandbox allocator context. This is a ProdMatch-owned platform engineer drill, framed as a March 2026 Delhivery Runtime Platform simulation, not a copied platform question.

Company context

Delhivery · Runtime Platform

Freshness

March 2026

Product surface

sandbox allocator

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

Question

For sandbox allocator, process a timestamp-ordered stream of sessions. 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

build DAGs
tenant quotas
artifact caching
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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