Flipper 1.3.0

By Brandon Keepers in Releases on

A new release of your favorite flipping gem is out. Explicit actor limits, UI updates, easier adapter wrapper, cloud telemetry and more……

Double Your Cache, Double Your Fun

By John Nunemaker in feature flags on

Long, long ago, when I was at GitHub, the file servers were setup active-passive, with the passive replicas sitting relatively unused. In an effort to prevent them from twiddling their thumbs, they were used as the primary memcached cluster. Sharing resources like this had benefits like less cost and higher…

Fighting Bots & Spam with Feature Flags

By Garrett Dimon in feature flags on

Feature flags are one of those things where once they click, you see opportunities for them everywhere. From managing development or analytics tools across environments to things like protecting registration or contact forms, they come in handy in endless ways. While nobody ever wants to take a registration or contact…

Performing Database Changes with Feature Flags

By Garrett Dimon in feature flags on

Releasing code behind feature flags when much of the related functionality is incomplete can sometimes require creative solutions. For example, if some new functionality requires a new column with a default value, how can we handle the scenario where the database’s default value should be different after the future…