Explain backpressure in Kotlin Flows and its management operators
This tests your understanding of Flow's pull-based nature and performance tuning. A great answer defines suspension as the default backpressure, then details how `buffer`, `conflate`, and `collectLatest` optimize it.
This question tests your grasp of Flow's pull-based architecture, where backpressure is handled by default via suspension. A strong answer first explains this inherent mechanism, then differentiates the three main optimization operators: `buffer` for concurrency, `conflate` for dropping intermediate values, and `collectLatest` for restarting collection work. The common mistake is to confuse the behaviors of `conflate` (producer-side drop) and `collectLatest` (collector-side cancellation).
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