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Why would you need a service to manage your feature flags?
by gshdg 7y ago
Why would you need a service to manage your feature flags?
- simplecomplex 7y agoDitto. One must already be using a database, so just add a table for features that you flip off and on. How could that possibly be more work than integrating API calls to a third party service just to ascertain a few (mostly unchanging) values?
- masonicb00m 7y agoWhen the major tech companies use a piece of infra, it’s likely they have a good reason. Here are some. - not necessarily using/in control of db - audit log of who toggled which features and when - reporting on users exposed to each feature - A/B test support - toggle features without touching production database - ...