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After reading this thread, looking through the side, and through LaunchDarkly's site, I'm still confused. Can someone ELI5 me through what a feature flag is? Ie
by the__alchemist 3y ago
After reading this thread, looking through the side, and through LaunchDarkly's site, I'm still confused. Can someone ELI5 me through what a feature flag is? Ie how does it compare to a struct or database field?
- scosman 3y agoRemote control to turn things on or off. Example: turn on new cool beta feature for 5% of users. Code ships with ‘if (new_cool.enabled)’ checks everywhere.
- esafak 3y agoThey enable experimentation: show this page variant to these users, that variant to those users, and make sure neither group overlaps with a third group in another experiment... It is an application of authorization.