use feature flags for clean deployments

AT14Session6/9/163:00PM

UseFeatureFlagsforCleanDeployments

Presentedby:

EdithHarbaugh

LaunchDarkly

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EdithHarbaughLaunchDarklyCEOandcofounderofLaunchDarklyEdithHarbaughhasmorethanfifteenyearsofexperienceinsoftwareengineeringwithbothconsumerandenterprisestartups.Previously,shescaledTripItto10millionusers.EdithwasproductmanageratVignette,aglobalcontentmanagementcompany,whichpoweredNASA,Volkswagen,andIRS.gov.Sheco-hostsToBeContinuous(@continuouscast),apodcastonsoftwaretrends.EdithholdstwopatentsindeploymentbetweenQA,staging,andproduction.

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Feature Flags for Clean Deployments

Edith Harbaugh

@LaunchDarkly LaunchDarkly.com

Edith Harbaugh

•  Cofounder & CEO, LaunchDarkly

•  Podcast cohost, “To Be Continuous”

•  BS Engineering Harvey Mudd College

•  Engineering, Epicentric & Vignette

•  Product, Monster.com, EasyBloom, TripIt

•  Marketing, Concur

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Tsunami Software Releases

Feature Flags

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Feature Flags!

•  Push functionality to who you want, when you want

•  Expand or roll back, without a new deployment

•  Separate code deployment from business logic

•  Get real-world feedback and analytics

•  No more long running branches with merge conflicts

Use Feature Flags to expose functionality when you want, to who you want

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No long lived branches

Kill Your Staging Server

Developer Environments

QA STAGING PRODUCTION

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Early Access Betas

Opt-In

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Block

Rollouts

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Hypothesis Driven Development

Newbie > Power User

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Subscription

Sunset

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Best Practices for Feature Flagging

• What’stherightlevelofflagging?•  Ambiguouslynamedflags•  Misunderstoodflags•  Removingflags•  Controlaccesstoflags•  Visibilitytonon-technicalusers•  Logging•  Dependencytracking

edith@launchdarkly.com @Edith_H

@continuousCast