Infra

Learn to branch by abstraction, a pattern used for making large-scale changes gradually while continuing to release your application, using feature flags

The increased usage of feature flags and canary releases (also “canary deployments”) in software development has had a tremendous impact on the overall release process for software companies globally. These canaries and feature flags allow you to test your features in production , convert your monolith to microservices, perform A/B…

Kicking off an internally developed feature flagging system is standard practice for many companies today as feature flags help engineering teams release faster at lower risk. As use cases for feature flags grow, so do the challenges of building an in-house system. This article will explore 10 challenges of building an in-house feature flagging solution.

This is one post in a series about managing the breakup of a monolithic architecture into a small service. In the first post of the series we looked at some fundamental techniques which allowed us to perform this sort of broad architectural shift as a series of small, safe steps. We started off…

This blog posts describes the sequence of changes a team can use to extract a chunk of functionality out from a monolith while continuing to deliver features and functionality in parallel.

In this article, we’ll walk through best practices for handling sensitive information in your application across different environments, as well as shed some light on how we accomplish this ourselves.

There are several ways to setup an AWS account, but one thing is for sure: as soon as you create one, you’re tempted to start playing around and create your first instances—but this decision may come back to bite you later on.