14 ways to Reduce Risk with Feature Flags
The use of feature flags for development and release process can provide multiple benefits that reduce risk related to new functionality or large releases.…
Feature Flag Fails & Guardrails
Despite carefully planning for some recent feature flag removals and triple-checking that the relevant flags were no longer present on our main branch, I still screwed it up.…
New features this week
It's Friday, so in the spirit of our blog named The Friday Deploy, we just deployed 3 new features for you. JK, we deployed these several days/weeks ago and have been testing them behind a feature flag. All we did today was push a couple buttons to…
Read-only API Tokens
We're working on providing more control over who can manage features and in which environments. Now you can choose to make API tokens read-only. 0:00/1× Toggling a feature with a read-only token via the API or Flipper gem will result in an error: $ curl -H "…
Feature Creators & Owners
Knowing is half the battle, and sometimes the only way to know is to talk to the right person. You can see who originally created a feature flag with Flipper Cloud's audit history, but digging back into the past can be tedious. Moreover, the person who originally created…
Project Overview
Last week we told the story about how we shipped a months-old idea to a customer in a 2-day relay race. Well, now we're ready to flip that feature on for everyone. Introducing the Project Overview, a thousand foot view of all your features and their status across…
The Feature Flag Relay Race
We recently had some healthy debate about a potential new view in Flipper Cloud. The debate's not fully settled, but thanks to feature flags, we were all able to agree it was worth some exploration. Where a lack of complete agreement might doom an idea on some teams,…
Fancy Environment Switching
Managing mulitple enviroments just got a lot better. Now you can quickly jump around from production, staging, and your personal environment with the new fancy environments switcher, and it will maintain the context that you were previously in. Each environment has a unique color, so you don't have…