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Ken Rimple
Senior Developer Advocate
Ken is a Senior Developer Relations Advocate at Honeycomb with over 35 years writing software, teaching, and mentoring engineers. He collaborates with developers to instrument applications across the stack to enable end-to-end observability and shares insights through blogs, podcasts, videos, and 1:1 office hours.
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AWS Summit NYC 2025: Laser-Focused on AI
If you’re unfamiliar with AWS Summits, these are conferences that occur on a yearly basis in different cities. The events are mostly used to announce new products and technologies. This year, the theme was AI, as evidenced by the keynote, a large majority of the talks, and a walk around the vendor floor.

New Feature: Manage Your session.id in Honeycomb’s Web SDK
The session.id field is special in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability. It’s a default option for filtering and grouping, and it’s the basis for session timeline analysis (in Early Access). Now you can control how session.id is set.


Wiring Up a Next.js Self-Hosted Application to Honeycomb
This blog post will get you started ingesting your Next.js application’s telemetry into Honeycomb. I’ll show you the configuration steps, how to view your traces in Honeycomb, and even how to explore your frontend React telemetry with our Frontend Observability Web Launchpad.

Configuring a React Application with Honeycomb For Frontend Observability
In this article, I’ll lay out approaches for wiring Honeycomb to client-side only React so you can ingest your telemetry into Honeycomb and take advantage of the Web Launchpad. This telemetry sends semantically-named attributes, and can be used with any OTLP destination.