Joy Ebertz — All About Feature Flags

Tiny DevOps

Joy Ebertz is a Principal Software Engineer at Split. She focuses on the technical vision for the backend team, and she joins me today to talk about some of the obvious, as well as not so obvoius ways in which feature flags can be used on projects of any size.

In this episode

• When does it make sense to start using a Feature Flagging library or service?
• Should you build your own Feature Flagging service?
• Using Feature Flags to test in production
• Using Feature Flags for large features to allow Continuous Integratoin
• Enabling feature packs or service tiers with Feature Flags
• Feature Flags for circuit-breaking
• How to use Feature Flags for infrastructure migrations
• What is feature parity checking, and how to do it with Feature Flags
• Some common gotchas with Feature Flags
• How do A/B tests relate to Feature Flags?
• Differences on mobile apps when using Feature Flags

Resources
Split.io
Blog: 7 Ways We Use Feature Flags Every Day at Split

Guest
Joy Ebertz
Blog: https://jkebertz.medium.com/
Twitter: @jkebertz
LinkedIn: joyebertz

Watch this episode on YouTube.