Ian Wilkes
Principal Software Engineer
Ian is a software engineer with 20 years of experience in the field.
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...
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...
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...
Speeding Things Up So Your Queries Can Bee Faster
Honeycomb strives to be a fast, efficient tool; our storage back-end satisfies the median customer query in 250ms (and the P90 in 1.3 seconds). Still,...
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...
Build and Run a Honeycomb Query right from your URL bar with Query Template Links
Whenever you run a Honeycomb query, you're directed to the permalink for the results. Returning to this URL always supplies the same data without re-running...