Infra

Product experimentation is the most effective way to determine what works best for end-users. You can measure engagement with a feature and hypothesize ways to improve that engagement, which will ultimately impact one or more critical business metrics. If you’re setting up an experiment, it’s mission-critical to implement A/B testing…

Every tech company, should be using a robust feature flag system. A well-built system will provide a host of value-adds and efficiencies for your dev team

Feature flagging is a technique development teams deploy to enable easy switches between codepaths in their systems, at runtime. In simpler terms, they’re control structures that toggle on and off the code inside them. Dev teams use feature flags for a wide variety of purposes, from canary releases to A/B…

Creating new microservices individually via feature flags ensures a low-risk release that will be easy on your devs, network administrators, and end-users

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.