Dearest feature flagger, I come today bearing good news. A new year and a new release! Only a patch, but it's got some nice bug fixes and other treats. Redis Connection Pools Let's lead with the 🔥. I'm happy to report that the redis and…
Dearest feature flagger, I just pushed out Flipper 1.3.1. Here are the deets: * #862 - Removed redundant delete of feature gate in ActiveRecord adapter. * #832 - Respect Rails defaults in an initializer by delaying loading ActiveRecord adapter until framework is loaded. * #869 - Address soft deprecation of ActiveRecord:…
When we started billing for Flipper Cloud, we did what everyone else in the space was doing – per seat pricing. $20 per seat each month felt like plenty. As time has passed this choice has increasingly bothered me. The past few months I've been thinking about what type…
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.…