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Hazel Edmands

Hazel Edmands

Staff Software Engineer

Hazel spent the past decade programming and leading teams at startups like Mode Analytics, Good Eggs, and Couchsurfing. She spends a lot of time thinking about systems, whether they are digital, sociotechnical, interpersonal or ecological.

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Virtualizing Our Storage Engine
May 28, 2024

Virtualizing Our Storage Engine

Our storage engine, affectionately known as Retriever, has served us faithfully since the earliest days of Honeycomb. It’s a tool that writes data to disk and reads it back in a way that’s optimized for the time series-based queries our UI and API makes. As usage of this feature has grown, however, we’ve noticed Retriever creaking in novel ways, pushing us to reconsider a core architectural choice.

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