Solution: Logger Rate Limiter

Explore how to implement a logger rate limiter system that decides whether to display messages based on a specified time limit. Understand a naive queue-based method and an optimized hash map approach that enables constant-time checks and efficient duplicate filtering, improving your coding interview preparation with practical hashing applications.

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- Naive approach
- Optimized approach using hash maps

Statement

For the given stream of message requests and their timestamps as input, you must implement a logger rate limiter system that decides whether the current message request is displayed. The decision depends on whether the same message has already been displayed in the last $S$ seconds. If yes, then the decision is FALSE, as this message is considered a duplicate. Otherwise, the decision is TRUE.

Note: Several message requests, though received at different timestamps, may carry identical messages.

Constraint:

$1 \leq$ request.length $\leq 10^{2}$

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