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How to Use Feature Flags in DevOps: Four Use Cases for Developers

Pradumna Saraf on January 10, 2024

If developers need to go through the typical DevOps process (branching, etc.) each time they want to test in production, it can be painful. How go...
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Eddie Jaoude •

Great post Pradumna

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Pradumna Saraf •

Thank you, Eddie

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Matija Sosic •

Nice post! Use cases really help to understand when I'd like to use something like this.

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Pradumna Saraf •

Thank you, Matija

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Bap •

A good lesson on Feature flags :)

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Pradumna Saraf •

Thank you, Bap

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Nathan Tarbert •

Thanks for these helpful tips on feature flags Anna!

I would love to collaborate on an integration with Wing Cloud

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Pradumna Saraf •

Thank you, Nathan

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annaredbond •

Ooh that'd be interesting - let's chat!!

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Nathan Tarbert •

Cool :)

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annaredbond •

Love this, Pradumna. So good to find ways to free up developers and let teams focus on what they do best.

Also, great write-up, as always. Your content always shines

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Pradumna Saraf •

Thank you, Anna, for your kind words!

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Adam Gardner •

Any readers using / considering feature flags should investigate OpenFeature. A CNCF project which is a vendor-neutral specification for flagging. Give your future-self flexibility while still using whatever vendor / tool you like.

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annaredbond •

Absolutely! Vendor neutrality and open standards are such an important thing in the feature flag space. Love OpenFeature!

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