How to make "viewed N times" functionality for a blog post?

Question

Programming

The article has a view counter. I'm wondering how you can update it so that it's efficient? After all, if you update it directly - I went to use it, I immediately made an sql query "update views_count +=1 where ..." - it will be too bold. And such precision is not needed.
Whereas? Where to buffer the number of users who came before making the request "update views_count +=N where ..."?