Feature #6: Incoming Tweets Predictor

Description

Twitter wants to adjust the number of servers deployed in a cluster, according to the user traffic, in 15-minute intervals. A metering service collects user traffic statistics over five-minute intervals. These user statistics are stored in a list, for example, [5,7,15,8,10]. We subscribe to the stream from this service. However, the five-minute interval is too short a time window to help the server deployment adapt. We want to aggregate this data to determine the average moving traffic in the last 15-minute interval.

The first two data points are an exception. When the first data point is received, it is used as the average itself. When the second data point is received, the average of the first two data points is used.

Solution

To solve this problem, we can start by initializing an empty deque ...