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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,…

In this world of continuous delivery and high volume of feature releases, it’s important to have a testing infrastructure in place to ensure your existing functionality does not break because of current changes. Smoke tests are a type of regression test that makes sure that your critical functional flows work.…

To understand how businesses can begin using feature flags, let’s look at a typical case of an organization evolving a continuous delivery system using feature flagging from the ground up. By analyzing a system taking shape, we can identify some of the common mistakes that software development teams make and…

By pushing feature flagging metadata into New Relic, you can understand the impact of a feature change across any metric you care about, in real time.

We’ll take a quick look at using New Relic to sleuth through a production incident, and then walk through setting it up for a Spring Boot web service.

If you’re a developer, chances are you’ve released thousands of features – but how do you ensure those features are working properly in production before you release them to all your users? If you ask me, the answer is feature flags. A feature flag is a piece of conditional code…

New Relic and Split enable customers to make data-driven decisions using feature flags, with a shared belief that you can’t improve what you can’t measure.

When versioning your API, consider the tradeoffs between distinct microservices and feature flags.

It’s easy to think of the user interface as the primary target for new functionality, with product teams eagerly watching important business metrics such as conversion rates and user engagement for improvements after each release. But behind the scenes, engineers are continually working on server-side innovations such as changes in…