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Expire cache in IssuablesCountForState every 1 hour

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Related to #325656 (closed)

In !67418 (merged) we introduced caching the group issues state counts (displayed in the issues list tabs) but still being tested behind the FF :cached_issues_state_count. As a following iteration, we would like to increase the expiration time of the caching in IssuablesCountForState

With the initial metrics, we can see an improvement in the first visual change and overall loading times for issues in the gitlab-org group.

The improvements are not that evident when looking at Kibana logs thought.

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Given that this issues list has ~50 hits per hour, expiring the cache less often should improve the average and return better results.

Also, these count values are only cached when they are over 1000 (and thus rounded to thousands) so the impact on precision shouldn't be too significant.

Slack thread (internal) with PMs validation.

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How to set up and validate locally

  1. Enable the feature flag
Feature.enable(:cached_issues_state_count)
  1. Visit a group containing at least a thousand open and a thousand closed issues.
  2. Navigate to the issues list. Example: http://127.0.0.1:3000/groups/group-name/-/issues
  3. After first caching, the page should load faster and maintain this behaviour for the following hour.

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Related to #325656 (closed)

Edited by Eugenia Grieff

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