Feature Flags (aka Feature Toggles)

Roland Roos ICT Architectures

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17 Apr 2020CPOL12 min read

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Separation of deployment and feature releases: how to enable and disable features in applications (services) at configuration time

In modern (agile) (micro)service oriented application landscapes, you want to deliver features as soon as possible. Preferably, through an automated deployment pipeline. However, you want to separate releasing features from deployments, and you want to have control when and to whom to release functionality (or, when and to whom to revoke functionality). Putting features behind a flag that can be enabled and disabled for groups can help achieve this goal.

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Roland Roos ICT Architectures

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Netherlands

Roland is an experienced, hands-on architect on modern (micro-)services orientation.
All modern OO-oriented platforms, C# DotNet, Java Spring Boot, Python and C++ have his interest. He is experienced in all those platforms.
Architectures, patterns, concepts and frameworks are more important than tooling and languages, after all. You should apply a tool, platform or language in a modern micro-service, because it fits best to the problem at hand. Not because you're most familiar with it Smile | :)

Feature Flags (aka Feature Toggles)

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