Coding Pattern: Divide & Conquer
Overview The Divide-n-Conquer strategy often employs recursion, as it relies on applying the same method to reduce the problem size by half and subsequently combining the outcomes for the ultimate solution. I view Divide-n-Conquer in a light similar to MapReduce, particularly when the task involves transformation. MapReduce breaks down a large problem into more manageable, independent sub-problems. Since each of these sub-problems operates autonomously, we can address them sequentially and still integrate their solutions. Key to this approach is ensuring the main problem can be independently segmented and the derived solutions can be seamlessly merged. ...