Feature flags to speed up & de risk development

Edith Harbaugh, CEO & cofounder, LaunchDarkly

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About Me

•  Cofounder & CEO, LaunchDarkly

•  Podcast cohost, “To Be Continuous”

•  BS Engineering Harvey Mudd College

•  Engineering, Epicentric & Vignette

•  Product, Monster.com, EasyBloom, TripIt

•  Marketing, Concur

Tsunami Software Releases

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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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Early Access Betas

Opt-In

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Block

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Rollouts

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Run A/B Tests

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Newbie > Power User

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Subscription

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Sunset

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Effective Feature Flagging

• What’s  the  right  level  of  flagging?  •  Ambiguously  named  flags  •  Misunderstood  flags  •  Removing  flags  •  Control  access  to  flags    •  Visibility  to  non-­‐technical  users  •  Logging  •  Dependency  tracking    

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Launch, control, and measure your features

Edith Harbaugh, CEO edith@launchdarkly.com

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