Over the past few decades, agile software development as a mindset has changed the industry from top to bottom. Delivering working feature increments on a regular schedule is now the expected model for high performance software engineering organizations.

However - some features are bigger than what can be accomplished in one sprint. And moreover what happens when a code deployment cause performance degradation and needs to be rolled back, and quickly? How can features deployment be controlled safely and with confidence? What if you wanted to deploy a feature to just a small subset of your users? Or a big subset?

Enter the humble feature flag. These booleans as a service can wrap code and be used to target what code gets released, and to whom. They allow for nearly instantaneous rollbacks and ramp-ups of feature deployments, slicing and dicing a user base in a multitude of ways.

Excited to learn more?

Join me in this session as I discuss the finer points of feature flagging.