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Ian Wilkes

Principal Software Engineer

Ian is a software engineer with 20 years of experience in the field.

October 9, 2025

How We Saved 70% of CPU and 60% of Memory in Refinery’s Go Code, No Rust Required

We've just released Refinery 3.0, a performance-focused update which significantly improves Refinery's CPU and memory efficiency.

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September 30, 2021

Understanding Lambda Sleep Cycles With CONCURRENCY

CONCURRENCY is now enabled for all customers. See our docs page for information about how it works and how to use it effectively. Questions or would like to test out CONCURRENCY and Honeycomb? Sign…

Databases

Product Updates

March 16, 2021

Event Latency: What It Is and Why You Should Care

Recently, we added a new derived column function to Honeycomb, INGEST_TIMESTAMP(), which can help customers debug event latency and/or inaccurate timestamps. A meaningful minority of the events sent to Honeycomb are already old when…

Databases

Product Updates

December 12, 2019

From “Secondary Storage” To Just “Storage”: A Tale of Lambdas, LZ4, and Garbage Collection

When we introduced Secondary Storage two years ago, it was a deliberate compromise between economy and performance. Compared to Honeycomb’s primary NVMe storage attached to dedicated servers, secondary storage let customers keep more data…

There And Back Again: A Honeycomb Tracing Story

In our previous post about Honeycomb Tracing, we used tracing to better understand Honeycomb’s own query path. When doing this kind of investigation, you typically have to go back and forth, zooming out and back…

Databases

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How We Saved 70% of CPU and 60% of Memory in Refinery’s Go Code, No Rust Required

Understanding Lambda Sleep Cycles With CONCURRENCY

Event Latency: What It Is and Why You Should Care

From “Secondary Storage” To Just “Storage”: A Tale of Lambdas, LZ4, and Garbage Collection

There And Back Again: A Honeycomb Tracing Story