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.…
Sign In with Google
You can now sign in to Flipper Cloud with your Google account. If you already have a Flipper Cloud account and want to connect your Google account, go to your Profile and click "Sign In with Google" under the Connected accounts section. We are considering adding the ability…
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…
Client-side feature flags
Did you know you can use Flipper to create and manage feature flags for your client-side app, even though Flipper is a Ruby gem and doesn't have client libraries in other languages? (Yet!) In one of our apps, we created a custom Flipper API that returns the value…