Manage Authentication Tokens with a Fixed Time to Live

Company: IBM

Role: Software Engineer

Category: Coding & Algorithms

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Online Assessment

Overview: Implement authentication tokens with a fixed time to live across generate, renew, and count operations. Respect the exact expiry boundary, ignore renewal of missing or expired tokens, handle replacement, and scale cleanup to a large timestamp-ordered operation stream.

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