Fun with Feature Flags

An exploration of feature flags and tools to support their integration in Spring.

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1. Fun with Flags B y W i m C r e u w e l s
2. The perfect ‘Flag Design App’! Unlimited possibilities Share your flag designs Like flag designs
3. Who am I? Wim Creuwels Faros Spring Certified AWS Architect
4. Fun with Flags
5. Fun with Feature Flags
6. WWW Why What How
7. What are feature flags and why do we use them?
8. Why use feature flags? Hide features New releases Unfinished features
9. What are feature flags? Boolean ON / OFF
10. How to implement feature flags?
11. How to implement feature flags? DIY Tools & Libraries ...
12. Two categories of feature flag tools Hosted Integrated Separated from application Accessed through SDK / API Run with application Non - separable
13. Demo
14. Unleash vs Togglz Unleash Togglz Hosting Container Integrated SDK Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET, ... Java Environments 2/unlimited Unsupported Pricing Free and paid version Free
15. Feature flags vs Spring Cloud Spring Cloud Config @RefreshScope /actuator/refresh
16. The evolution of the flags Flag types Gradual rollout Segments Auth integration
17. Why use feature flags? Hide features New releases Unfinished features A/B testing (in production!)
18. FROM HOW TO
19. WOW
20. Danku
21. Questions
22. Info wim.creuwels@faros.be linkedin.com/in/wim-creuwels/ @wimcreuwels github.com/LewisMcReu/FFF_Unleash_backend github.com/LewisMcReu/FFF_Unleash_frontend github.com/LewisMcReu/FFF_Togglz_backend github.com/LewisMcReu/FFF_Togglz_frontend