We've made some important upgrades to our real-time ingestion system to minimize resource saturation, isolate failure domains, and improve user visibility.

Javier GoizuetaSoftware Engineer

Scalable Analytics Architecture

Jun 27, 2025

How we made our ingestion pipeline 30% faster with C++ (not Rust, sorry)

JSON to ClickHouse RowBinary conversion powers much of Tinybird's ingestion. We made it more efficient, complete, and predictable, cutting CPU usage by more than 30%.

Javier GoizuetaSoftware Engineer

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