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Why a Homegrown Feature Flag System is a Trap

Why a Homegrown Feature Flag System is a Trap

Feature flags empower teams to ship code safely, experiment quickly, and decouple deploys from releases. At first glance, building your own feature flag system seems like a quick win: a few conditionals in your code, a simple database table, and you’re off to the races. But reality sets in

Connecting Feature Flags with DORA Metrics

Connecting Feature Flags with DORA Metrics

Intro to DORA Metrics Measuring the success and impact of new development processes is crucial to ensuring your team is always well-equipped with tools and processes that drive growth. Any team looking to adopt feature flags in their workflow should also adopt a way to properly measure DORA metrics, specifically

Non-boolean Feature Flags

Non-boolean Feature Flags

Feature flags aren’t just booleans that turn a feature on or off based on their value. They can also be used to evaluate expressions such as the application's version, compare a value to a string, or, as this example will show, change the site's behaviour