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[Design] Design Cache System (`)

Easy version

[Q] Design a layer in front of a system which cache the last n requests and the responses to them from the system.

Solution:

[a] When a request comes look it up in the cache and if it hits then return the response from here and do not pass the request to the system

[b] If the request is not found in the cache then pass it on to the system

[c] Since cache can only store the last n requests, Insert the n+1th request in the cache and delete one of the older requests from the cache

[d]Design one cache such that all operations can be done in O(1) – lookup, delete and insert.

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