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Most companies are not in the business of building UIs for rule engines, A/B-testing, user segmentation, etc. The value of giving non-engineers the power to rol
by TrickyRick 4y ago
Most companies are not in the business of building UIs for rule engines, A/B-testing, user segmentation, etc. The value of giving non-engineers the power to roll out features without code changes is worth quite a lot.
(Where I work we recently went from a home-rolled feature flag system similar to what you described to using LaunchDarkly)
- gitgud 4y agoAgreed, dynamically serving features based on a database flag is just one part. There's A/B analytics, rolling out to specific user segments, recognizing stale flags etc... You could always build it all your self, but I guess you could build a lot of things your self...
- VicVee 4y agoBeyond that, who's maintaining it? Are you going to be able to deploy these things across every single one of your systems? Your website? Your apps? In conjunction? I absolutely understand that you could just read somejson from a cdn and call it a day, but at some point someone is going to have to maintain it and become the defacto feature flag person lol
- tofuahdude 4y agoHow is using LaunchDarkly home-rolling a feature flag system?
- prh8 4y agoThey are saying they started home-rolled and switched to LD
- TrickyRick 4y agoLike the other person wrote we switched from a home-rolled system to LaunchDarkly.