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⚡️ Cache latest op version when broadcasting presence#679

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At the moment, when sending a presence update to other subscribers, we call transformPresenceToLatestVersion() for every presence update which internally calls getOps() for every presence update.

Calls to getOps() can be expensive, and rapid presence updates may cause undue load on the server, even when the Doc has not been updated.

This change tries to mitigate this by subscribing to a pubsub stream for any Docs that an Agent tries to broadcast presence on. We keep an in-memory cache of the latest snapshot version sent over this stream, which lets us quickly check if a presence broadcast is already current without needing to query the database at all.

To avoid leaking streams, the Agent will internally handle its stream subscription state by:

  • subscribing whenever a non-null presence update is broadcast
  • unsubscribing whenever a null presence update is broadcast

This means that rapid changes in presence being null or not can still result in database calls, but even in this case they should be less bad than before, because we only perform a snapshot fetch instead of ops.

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At the moment, when sending a presence update to other subscribers, we
[call `transformPresenceToLatestVersion()`][1] for every presence update
which internally [calls `getOps()`][2] for every presence update.

Calls to `getOps()` can be expensive, and rapid presence updates may
cause undue load on the server, even when the `Doc` has not been
updated.

This change tries to mitigate this by subscribing to a pubsub stream for
any `Doc`s that an `Agent` tries to broadcast presence on. We keep an
in-memory cache of the latest snapshot version sent over this stream,
which lets us quickly check if a presence broadcast is already current
without needing to query the database at all.

To avoid leaking streams, the `Agent` will internally handle its stream
subscription state by:

 - subscribing whenever a non-`null` presence update is broadcast
 - unsubscribing whenever a `null` presence update is broadcast

This means that rapid changes in presence being `null` or not can still
result in database calls, but even in this case they should be less bad
than before, because we only perform a snapshot fetch instead of ops.

[1]: https://github.com/share/sharedb/blob/297ce5dc66563a5955311793a475768d73ac8b87/lib/agent.js#L804
[2]: https://github.com/share/sharedb/blob/297ce5dc66563a5955311793a475768d73ac8b87/lib/backend.js#L919
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Agent.prototype._unsubscribeDocVersion = function(collection, id, callback) {
var stream = util.dig(this.latestDocVersionStreams, collection, id);

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This doesn't clean up the this.latestDocVersions, which means a long-lived client that goes through many docs could have an agent with tons of old entries in that map.

Per discussion, immediately cleaning up this.latestDocVersions may make the case of multiple null presences worse. Perhaps a delayed cleanup or something.

- Clean up `latestDocVersions` when unsubscribing
- Fix not setting version if the object already exists
- Removes `null` presence check, which won't work if the object has been
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@alecgibson alecgibson merged commit 0c58c49 into master Aug 27, 2024
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