podcasts
New O11yCast online featuring Kent Beck
O11yCast Episode 80 with Kent Beck is now online...
tech
Frontend Observability
Honeycomb blog post: New Feature: Manage Your session.id in Honeycomb’s Web SDK
I've written a blog post on how to manage the session.id in Honeycomb's Web SDK. This is a new feature that allows you to set the session.id for your application, which can be useful for tracking user sessions and understanding user behavior. View the
ai
AI and Developers: What does the future hold
Tim O'Reilly has a post out there about the huge shift AI is making with our relationship to software engineering. Scary title. But the content is less so. Why? How many of you started with technologies you still use exactly the same way today? Even if you'
React
Honeycomb tech post - How to instrument a React application with Honeycomb Frontend Observability
I've written a blog post on how to instrument an React application using Honeycomb's Frontend Observability Web SDK. It wraps OpenTelemetry's JavaScript API. In the post I discuss the basics of wiring up a frontend application, how to view the telemetry generated by the
React
Honeycomb tech post - Next.js Honeycomb Telemetry
One of the most popular Metaframeworks today is Next.js. I've delivered a number of talks on that framework, and so when I came to Honeycomb I realized I needed to do some experimenting and see how far I could take the instrumentation. So, after digging into React
opentelemetry
Honeycomb Blog Post - Debugging Errors in offsite API calls with CORS
My latest post on debugging CORS on frontend applications is available on Honeycomb.io. It reviews how a CORS handshake works, what it provides, and how to troubleshoot problems when they occur.