On 20 Dec 2014, at 09:46, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Rajath Subramanyam <rajat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Thanks Ken. Any other use cases where counters are used apart from Rainbird ? > > Disqus use(d? s?) them behind an in-memory accumulator which batches and > periodically flushes. This is the best way to use "old counters." "New > counters" should be usable in more cases without something in front of them.
We at Thinglink also have been using the same strategy successfully: collect stats in-memory, batch them periodically to a wide LCS cf. Our stats are somewhat bursty (=same event can occur several times per second), so doing in-memory accumulation is useful to reduce write load. We’ll re-benchmark once we upgrade to 2.1, since the counter and CQL implementations have changed for the better. /Janne
