Articles and how-to guides from the Optimizely blog on feature flag best practices.
As a developer, you may wonder about the benefits of using feature flags vs blue-green deployments and want to know when to use which tool. A quick primer: blue-green deployments involve redirecting user traffic to a different set of servers that host your updated application. Whereas feature flags are code-based and enable users to see […]
This year, Opticon20 is going virtual and is free to attend. Join us on September 16th and 17th in North America, and September 29th and 30th in Europe to learn how to use progressive delivery and experimentation to validate ideas, reduce risk, and ship better products and experiences faster. Leaders from category-defining companies including AMC […]
Last year, we launched Optimizely Rollouts, a free feature flagging solution to help development teams ship products faster, safer, and with more control. We’ve seen thousands of teams create feature flags with Rollouts across websites, mobile apps, and backend experiences. However, we believe that smarter software delivery isn’t just about reducing risk, it’s also about […]
As a developer using feature flags while building Optimizely, I had to switch back and forth between the application and the IDE while developing. This made my development flow hard to maintain because of all the context switching between application and IDE. It is also error prone with no way to test my configuration or […]
In recent years, companies accelerating digital transformation and innovation have been decomposing legacy monolith applications and moving to distributed systems architectures (almost universally spoken about as microservices). If you and your team have decided to undertake this migration, you’re likely excited about the compelling upsides of a distributed architecture. Maybe you’re considering how you’ll execute […]
Optimizely Rollouts offers full featured feature flagging capabilities that unlock the power of Progressive Delivery allowing you to ship faster with more safety and confidence. But, what are all ways you can leverage Optimizely Rollouts to help your team? Today, I’ll go through five powerful capabilities of Optimizely Rollouts and Full Stack all while using […]
Feature flags, phased rollouts, and A/B tests all help you ship more confidently. Feature flags allow seamless feature releases and rollbacks. Phased rollouts catch bugs early and often. A/B tests make sure you’re building the right thing for your business. So, when do you use one over the other? This is a question I’ve heard […]
Feature flags enable a powerful continuous delivery process and provide a platform for progressive delivery with phased rollouts and A/B tests. Once your organization begins deploying feature flags successfully, you may be excited to get more into your codebase. However, good governance is critical to scaling the power of feature flags. As with any feature […]
Earlier this week, Optimizely’s Chief Product Officer Claire Vo and Jon Noronha, our VP of Product Management, presented via a live webinar on Optimizely’s vision for product development teams and previewed our upcoming roadmap. They explained how product development teams need to be able to balance velocity with proving value. Here are some of the […]
At Optimizely, we deploy a large amount of our code behind feature flags because it gives us the benefits of shortening our release cycle, perform A/B testing, and deploy code changes safer with rollouts. While feature flags (aka feature toggles) have helped us drive better products delivered more quickly, they tend to be very difficult […]
