the idea of feature toggles never clicked with me for some reason. maybe because I'd have to test that my code doesn't work unless I enable it. it's trivial if I change the old behavior with a shiny new one but how do I test that my buggy new feature is completely unavailable and cannot be accidentally called by something else?
Feature flags (or toggles) are essential for continuous deployment and quick delivery because they allow you to manage things like canary releases and the ability to "test in production" ( 🤯). Obviously you should actual test and choose a well designed feature flags solution but at the end of the day and for the sake of simplicity you can think of them like a code branch:
You could also argue how those would be tested and while that's not always easy it's definitely doable. Another way to think of feature flags is that they are merely configuration items.
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the idea of feature toggles never clicked with me for some reason. maybe because I'd have to test that my code doesn't work unless I enable it. it's trivial if I change the old behavior with a shiny new one but how do I test that my buggy new feature is completely unavailable and cannot be accidentally called by something else?
Feature flags (or toggles) are essential for continuous deployment and quick delivery because they allow you to manage things like canary releases and the ability to "test in production" ( 🤯). Obviously you should actual test and choose a well designed feature flags solution but at the end of the day and for the sake of simplicity you can think of them like a code branch:
You could also argue how those would be tested and while that's not always easy it's definitely doable. Another way to think of feature flags is that they are merely configuration items.