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Hey, I'm software engineer at Microsoft, with 7 years of experience. Here we are talking about F(M)AANG big tech interviews: leetcode, system design and corpo life.

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I didn't find Martin's analysis on Salvatore's analysis on Martin's analysis on Salvatore's RedLock (((
TL; DR
RedLock (Redis based lock using SET NX + TTL) might not be that accurate and correct.

If you plan to use it for some critical functionality - stick to proper concensus (raft, paxos)
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Solution is pretty easy, so go and collect your coins
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Today we are streaming, +- 20:00 Prague time.
Topics: 2dimensional DP + Redis Sharding implementation on hashslots
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We are doing LeetRooms with friends. This is semi competitive thing, when we select 4 problems and solve with leaderboard, etc

Let's also check the problems during stream really quickly they are not some bullshit, but pretty simple and cover couple of basic leetcode patterns to revise
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Daily

https://leetcode.com/problems/new-21-game/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2025-08-17

btw, fuck daily today, it is not mid, explanation in the solutions afterwards

#daily
Naive solution:
add the probabilities of all sequences that lead to score <= k.
For that try every possible choice (it has probability {1/ numofchoices} * subproblem's probability.


Dp optimization:
Top-down and bottom up DP is pretty simple, it will optimize Complexity from O(maxPts ^ k) to O(k ^ maxPts). BUT FOR THIS FUCKING MIDDLE IT IS NOT ENOUGH

Sliding window optimization:
You clearly see that at each iteration of score, we are recalculating contiguous subproblems score+1, score + 2, score + 3, ... score + maxPts
The optimization would be to remove this summing, and just use precalculated window of sums (tbh was not able to figure it out on my own)
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Yea, it was great Sunday midday, and then you fucking spent 2-3 hours on stupid problem that if somebody even ask during interview - they just don't want hire you
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Hint:
work with array of numbers. any 2 numbers, perform operation and add result back.

This is backtracking problem
Solution:
Since constraints are low, we can afford exponential complexity

Pick any 2 numbers from input array, any possible operation over these numbers and put it as result back to array.
This way you decreased array size by one, and now you can work with subproblem F(n) = F(n - 1)

In the end, when you have only 1 number left - check that it is 24.00000000X (can be floating as we have division)
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I noticed, streams are very low traffic-wise so I want to do a poll, what better to stream, cause leetcode is not a priority at the moment, all important stuff is over. If you have any other idea - let me know in comment section
Priority?
Anonymous Poll
22%
keep streaming leetcode
43%
more system design
42%
implementations (POC) of system designs (messenger, trading plat, uber, instagram, etc)
34%
topic based stream (1 topic whole stream by voting) e.g. DP, distributed lock, sharding, etc
11%
reading / learning on streams some random thing
10%
prioritize high quality videos/articles instead of long streams
34%
solving real interview problems (leaked)
2%
(propose your idea in discussion)