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The what, the why, and the how of Bloom Filters

Have you ever wondered how does Medium recommend blogs to read or how does a platform with millions of users tells if a username is available or taken? If yes, you have come to the right place, as we are going to look at the data structure that makes this and a lot more happen. The data structure is Bloom Filter.

 

Bloom Filters are data structures with unique properties of space-efficient and probabilistic nature. We will look at the 2 properties in detail later in the blog.

 

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