Karandeep Nagra
Engineering
Tail Amplification
Tail amplification is a statistical phenomenon observed in process or operation fanout in software and other systems. A single request that fans out to multiple requests to downstream services amplifies the probability of sampling a tail probability that is disproportionate to the sampling rate.
Featured Coding Puzzles
Biggest Square in City Skyline (Medium)
Given a city skyline represented by an array containing the height at each index, return the area of the biggest square that can be fit inside the skyline.
Find K Closest Elements (Medium)
Given an array of positive integers and a target integer, return the $k$ elements closest to the target. Assume that all integers in the array are unique.
Featured Algorithm Patterns
Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming is a programming technique wherein a larger problem is broken down into a smaller subproblem plus a computation for the remainder of the problem.
Two Pointer Technique
A two-pointer approach to certain coding problems involves keeping 2 pointers referencing elements in a data structure and then changing where those 2 pointers point in order to find a solution to the problem.
