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Oh, this is an interesting problem that I've solved for personally years ago in a project called Sheep. Note, this project won't work for your specific use case, but the premise is the same. Essentially, you're right that a transaction on a single row would create a hotspot, so what you must do is shard the counter across N rows.
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