Talia Nassi

With feature flags, you can control the percentage allocation of users you want to be exposed to a specific feature. This process provides risk mitigation and confirms both usability and scalability. Canary releases, or controlled rollouts, serve as an added layer of protection in case something goes wrong.  What is…

Software testing is usually a point of friction for software development teams. Feature flags create an added layer of complexity that you need to account for. So how can we make the process of testing in a feature-flagged codebase easier?  Isolate Tests to Reduce the Scope of the System Under…

Controlled rollouts, also called canary releases, or percentage rollouts, are a vital part of software releases. With controlled rollouts, you can release your new feature to a small subset of users, verify proper functionality, and then slowly roll the feature out to your entire user base once you know it…

Testing in production is becoming more and more common across tech. The most significant benefit is knowing that your features work in production before your users have access. With feature flags, you can safely deploy your code to production targeting only internal teammates, test the functionality, validate design and performance,…

Everywhere I look lately, I see React Hooks. It’s the new trend that’s taken over the developer world. Hooks are functions that let you hook into state and lifecycle features from functional components. The value here is that they let you use React without classes. This makes for shorter, cleaner…

Today we remember the release night.  We gather (virtually) today not to mourn the death of the release night, but to celebrate the inception of its replacement. Release nights were once a standard for software development teams to have a set date to release their software to their customers. In…

The design of your application can define its success; therefore, as a developer, you need to think about how to organize your CSS to have the greatest impact. The traditional way to organize CSS files in your React app is to import them into each component that is using that…

There comes a time in every developer’s life when they need to do a database migration. Because business requirements change frequently, database schemas need to be updated from time to time. When you think of making changes to your code, it’s easy to roll back with git or feature flags,…

Feature flags have revolutionized software development by allowing features within a software product to be individually enabled or disabled at any point, even after they’ve already been rolled out to customers. Let’s look at some of the most important ways in which they can improve your ability to develop, test,…