Guide

Feature Flags: Choosing To Build or Buy

Understand the common challenges organizations run into when developing an in-house feature flagging solution.

If you are focused on delivering features quickly while ensuring stability for your customers, you are probably evaluating feature flags and may have even kicked off your own internally developed feature flagging system.

Learn Why Agile Businesses Use Split

Deliver software features that matter, fast!

renderContent(deleteTreatment) {
  const allowDelete = deleteTreatment.treatment === "on";
  return (
    <div className="todoListMain">
      <div className="header">
        <form onSubmit={this.addItem}>
          <input
            ref={(a) => (this._inputElement = a)}
            placeholder="Enter Task"
          ></input>
          <button type="submit">Add</button>
        </form>
      </div>
      <TodoItems
        entries={this.state.items}
        allowDelete={allowDelete}
        delete={this.deleteItem}
      />
      <TodoItems
        entries={this.state.items}
        allowDelete={allowDelete}
        delete={this.deleteItem}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

What you will learn

This guide walks through the typical progression of an in-house solution that we have seen through many customer conversations. From dev-driven to business-driven use cases, the challenges grow almost as fast as, if not faster than, the list of requirements. Teams face multiple decision points to continue investing in an in-house solution or look at external options. Not all these use cases will apply to your feature flagging practice, but they do reflect a very common progression.

As feature flagging grows in importance, the challenges teams face often grow faster than the list of requirements.

This guide includes:

  • A walkthrough of the typical use cases for a feature flagging system based on our customers’ experiences
  • Top challenges of building a feature flagging system from the ground up
  • A worksheet to help you make scope and cost estimations for an in-house solution
  • And much more! Download the free guide to day.

Schedule a Split Demo Tailored to Your Needs

Speed up development cycles, reduce release risk, and focus your team on DevOps best practices that create maximum impact.

Book a Demo

Create Impact With Everything You Build

We’re excited to accompany you on your journey as you build faster, release safer, and launch impactful products.