You know what they say... there are 2 hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-1 errors. That's true for feature flags as well. You don't always get the name quite right before the feature flag gets used in production. But once the…
You might not have noticed it, but Flipper 1.3.0 (released in April) enabled telemetry by default for everyone using Cloud. This means for the past month or two (whenever you upgraded), we've been rolling up some useful metrics and shipping them to Cloud. Nothing personal is…
A few weeks ago I switched Box Out and Flipper Cloud to AppSignal. I've been loving it so far! The only snag I hit was cost for Cloud (not for Box Out). Previously, Cloud was using New Relic and paying around $180/mo. After a few weeks 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…
Adding feature flags is easy but deleting them requires care and safety. We even mess it up. Before you delete a flag, you have to remove it from the code. If you don't remove it from the code, deleting a flag is the same as disabling it.…
The first hesitation most people have with a cloud-based feature flag service is assuming that their feature flags checks will now require a network connection to said cloud. Many do, but ours doesn't. When I considered starting Flipper Cloud, my overriding concern was how can we ensure that…
This "minor" update has a bunch of improvements, and a couple big surprises tucked inside.…
We have two new features for you this week. They've been a month in the making and we hope you enjoy them. Organization Permissions Paying Flipper Cloud customers now have a little more control over which organization members have access to which features. Organization members can be assigned…