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Re:The Slotted Counter Pattern by iv42 on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:49PM (#32310484)
Also, it's basically identical to the pattern described as Counter Tables in "High Performance MySQL" (3rd edition), published in 2012.
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Re:The Slotted Counter Pattern by tantalor on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:57PM (#32313674)
Indeed, it also calls them "slots":

> You can get higher concurrency by keeping more than one row and updating a random row... just choose a random slot and update it

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/high-performance-mysql/...

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