Brian Rinaldi

Camp Counselor

Feature Flagging is Just Simple Booleans: False

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022 - 9:00 PM UTC, for 1 hour.

Regular, 60 minute presentation

Room: A

feature flags
feature management

Most developers create their first feature flag manually. It usually sits in a config file and it's typically a simple on/off switch. This can be incredibly valuable and useful, but is also extremely limiting. Thinking about feature flags as more than booleans - as a series of strings or numbers or even as JSON objects - gives them a ton of new power and expands their utility into so many areas beyond simple switches. In this session, we'll explore how the different types of feature flags can be used to control different aspects of your applications. We'll even look at how this can enable more complex use cases like rollouts and experimentation.

Prerequisites

None

Take Aways

  • Explore different types of feature flags and what they are useful for
  • See how flags can improve release management
  • Learn how flags can be used for testing and experimentation
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