Practice - Social Media Feed
Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
What is a heap?
💡 Hint: Think about how components are prioritized.
Explain what a K-way merge does.
💡 Hint: Remember, it’s a method to merge sorted lists.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What data structure is primarily used for maintaining the priority of posts?
💡 Hint: Think about the structure that allows quick access to high priority.
True or False: The K-way merge can process multiple sorted lists simultaneously.
💡 Hint: Reflect on the merging capability of K-way processes.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a real-time social media feed algorithm that implements K-way merging with performance considerations. What data structures would you choose and why?
💡 Hint: Consider how your data structure allows for quick retrieval and insertion.
Suppose you need to merge 100K sorted posts from 50 different sources. Discuss the scaling challenges and potential optimizations you would apply.
💡 Hint: Think about how to manage large data and ensure relevance.
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