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Feature Flags as a Service

56 points by manofcode 11y ago

aechsten 11y ago
I've been hearing a lot about feature flags lately.
- manofcode 11y ago
  I was reading Martin Fowler's articles http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html and found this approach interesting..
- killface 11y ago
  i think they're hitting their hockey stick of adoption. it's been a necessary component for continuous delivery at high scale for a while, but it hasn't always been this easy.
- UK-AL 11y ago
  Feature flags have been around for awhile on very large websites. But with all the current emphasis on continuous delivery they're becoming well known everywhere.
schlomok 11y ago
Surprising they are just now getting on HN. LaunchDarkly is a really awesome tool :)
- rgbrgb 11y ago
  Looks like you are too :). Welcome. If you click the URL next to the title you can see that they've actually been shared on HN many times: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=launchdarkly.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=launchdarkly.com
  - schlomok 11y ago
    Yeah, definitely a newer account. Been a lurker for years but I guess I never caught those times. Thanks for the welcome :)
henryw4k 11y ago
Awesome tool! Good to know there's super useful tools like this out there.
rileymat2 11y ago
Overall, my initial impression is quite positive. One negative comment, "Feature Flag-Driven Development" makes it sound like a parody.
ludwigvan 11y ago
We use Gargoyle by Disqus in our Django projects. Disqus has a newer alternative, but Gargoyle works for us.
lowglow 11y ago
Absolutely awesome. Edith and the team are brilliant and this product is amazingly useful for those that are looking to implement feature flags in production.
wcummings 11y ago
>Protect features from users by excluding them from ever seeing them – for example, excluding anyone from TechCrunch from seeing new functionality. rimshot
dang 11y ago
Sockpuppet votes are not allowed on Hacker News and will get your accounts and sites penalized and/or banned. The sockpuppet accounts that voted on this post, as on numerous others, were in fact banned a long time ago. If someone is selling votes here, what they're actually selling is a one-way ticket to the bad dog box, where they themselves have indeed been located for months. Why pay when you can get that for free? This looks like a good project. We hate to see good work get penalized on HN. Someone should email us at hn@ycombinator.com and put this right.

56 points by manofcode 11y ago

aechsten 11y ago

I've been hearing a lot about feature flags lately.

manofcode 11y ago
I was reading Martin Fowler's articles http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html and found this approach interesting..
killface 11y ago
i think they're hitting their hockey stick of adoption. it's been a necessary component for continuous delivery at high scale for a while, but it hasn't always been this easy.
UK-AL 11y ago
Feature flags have been around for awhile on very large websites. But with all the current emphasis on continuous delivery they're becoming well known everywhere.

schlomok 11y ago

Surprising they are just now getting on HN. LaunchDarkly is a really awesome tool :)

rgbrgb 11y ago
Looks like you are too :). Welcome. If you click the URL next to the title you can see that they've actually been shared on HN many times: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=launchdarkly.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=launchdarkly.com
- schlomok 11y ago
  Yeah, definitely a newer account. Been a lurker for years but I guess I never caught those times. Thanks for the welcome :)

henryw4k 11y ago

Awesome tool! Good to know there's super useful tools like this out there.

rileymat2 11y ago

Overall, my initial impression is quite positive. One negative comment, "Feature Flag-Driven Development" makes it sound like a parody.

ludwigvan 11y ago

We use Gargoyle by Disqus in our Django projects. Disqus has a newer alternative, but Gargoyle works for us.

lowglow 11y ago

Absolutely awesome. Edith and the team are brilliant and this product is amazingly useful for those that are looking to implement feature flags in production.

wcummings 11y ago

>Protect features from users by excluding them from ever seeing them – for example, excluding anyone from TechCrunch from seeing new functionality. rimshot

dang 11y ago

Sockpuppet votes are not allowed on Hacker News and will get your accounts and sites penalized and/or banned. The sockpuppet accounts that voted on this post, as on numerous others, were in fact banned a long time ago. If someone is selling votes here, what they're actually selling is a one-way ticket to the bad dog box, where they themselves have indeed been located for months. Why pay when you can get that for free? This looks like a good project. We hate to see good work get penalized on HN. Someone should email us at hn@ycombinator.com and put this right.