Create a Firestore sharded counter (async)

Create a Firestore sharded counter (async).

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• Distributed counters
• Support frequent and distributed counters

Code sample

Python

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async def init_counter(self, doc_ref):
    """
    Create a given number of shards as
    subcollection of specified document.
    """
    col_ref = doc_ref.collection("shards")

    # Initialize each shard with count=0
    for num in range(self._num_shards):
        shard = Shard()
        await col_ref.document(str(num)).set(shard.to_dict())

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