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Analytics: Longest Unique Session Window

Also known as: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

This one is the sliding window pattern: grow, shrink, and maintain just enough state to stay linear. Interviewers love it because it reveals your stateful scanning and your edge-case discipline. Once your window update rules are consistent, you get linear time almost for free.

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Sliding Window Algorithm

Sliding window processes arrays or strings by moving a window through the data, updating results incrementally instead of recalculating from scratch. Reach for it when you see "contiguous subarray," "longest/shortest substring," or "at most K distinct."

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