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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 […]
Feature flags allow you to slowly rollout a feature, rather than doing a risky big bang launch, and are extremely helpful when used in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment. At Optimizely, we commonly use feature flags to reduce the risk of complicated deploys like rolling out new APIs. However, building a feature flagging […]
Not cleaning up feature flags can introduce risk to your code base. Learn how Feature Flag Removal Day can lead to better feature management. Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a gold standard of agile software development and continuous integration for good reason: they help teams deliver new features to customers safely, and with better […]
