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Design a hit counter over the last 5 minutes in which each hit also carries a payload of a few KB, and the payloads do not fit in memory.

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Support hit(timestamp), getHits(timestamp) over the last 5 minutes and get_messages(timestamp). The timestamps fit in memory but the payloads do not, so design the storage accordingly.

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