tsabat

We store views in a single MySQL row, indexed by the redis key. Without redis in front of the DB this would cause lock contention, but redis keeps us reading/writing to the DB on the first, 10th, 25, and mod 100th read.

Without redis backing, using a single row to store counts would cause lock contention.

Using a row per view would result in slow reads on count(*) and in a write-heavy situation will cause the re-index to slow/stop replication because indexes are single-threaded.

SabretWoW

# This is a skeleton for testing models including examples of validations, callbacks,
# scopes, instance & class methods, associations, and more.
# Pick and choose what you want, as all models don't NEED to be tested at this depth.
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# I'm always eager to hear new tips & suggestions as I'm still new to testing,
# so if you have any, please share!
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# @kyletcarlson
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# This skeleton also assumes you're using the following gems: