Apr 27 · 3 min read · Most Teams Use Feature Flags Wrong They wire up LaunchDarkly or Unleash, use it for two A/B tests, then forget about it. Meanwhile, their production is full of if (isNewCheckoutEnabled) blocks that nobody remembers how to toggle. Feature flags are no...
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Apr 22 · 12 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/feature-flags-golang. Why Feature Flags in Go? Go is the language of choice for microservices, API backends, CLI tools, and infrastructure software. Teams shipping Go code in production face the same challeng...
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Apr 22 · 10 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/feature-flags-python. Why Feature Flags in Python? Python powers everything from web applications and REST APIs to data pipelines and machine learning systems. Across all of these, you face the same challenge...
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Apr 22 · 12 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/feature-flags-nextjs. Why Feature Flags in Next.js? Next.js is not a typical React app. With the App Router, your code runs in multiple environments — the server, the edge, and the browser — sometimes in the ...
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Apr 22 · 6 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/feature-flags-scheduled-releases. The 3am Deploy Problem Feature flags scheduled releases solve one of the most painful problems in software delivery: timed launches across time zones. Every developer has bee...
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Apr 22 · 8 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/ab-testing-feature-flags. Why A/B Test with Feature Flags? Most teams think A/B testing requires a dedicated experimentation platform — Optimizely, LaunchDarkly Experimentation, or Google Optimize (RIP). Thes...
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Apr 22 · 16 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/feature-flags-vs-feature-branches. The False Dichotomy Developers often frame feature flags vs feature branches as an either/or choice. In reality, they solve different problems and work best together. Featur...
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Apr 22 · 6 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/gradual-rollouts-guide. What Is a Gradual Rollout? A gradual rollout (also called progressive delivery or incremental rollout) is the practice of releasing a feature to a small subset of users first, then pro...
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Apr 22 · 16 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/what-are-feature-flags. What Are Feature Flags? Feature flags (also called feature toggles or feature switches) are a software development technique that lets you enable or disable functionality in your appli...
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Apr 22 · 11 min read · Originally published on rollgate.io/blog/how-we-test-rollgate. The Testing Problem No One Talks About Building a feature flag platform means building something that sits in the critical path of every request your customers serve. If a flag evaluatio...
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