Practical articles on feature flags, gradual rollouts, and shipping software safely.
A practical guide to feature flag management for backend teams that need safe rollouts, fast kill switches, and auditable production changes.
Environment variables are great for static configuration. Feature flags are built for runtime decisions, gradual rollouts, targeting, and rollback control.
A gradual rollout lets you expose a feature to 1%, 10%, 50%, and then 100% of users while limiting the blast radius of production surprises.
A kill switch is the fastest way to disable risky production behavior without waiting for a rollback, hotfix, or redeploy.
Use the JavaScript feature flag SDK to evaluate flags in Node.js services with safe defaults, user context, and production-ready error handling.
Use the Java feature flag SDK in JVM services with stable user identifiers, explicit defaults, and environment-scoped API keys.
Use REST API feature flag evaluations from any language or service that can make an authenticated HTTP request.
Small teams often need practical feature flag controls before they need a full enterprise release platform. Here is how to evaluate the tradeoffs.
Smart Insights brings post-release monitoring into the feature flag workflow so teams can move from rollout control to rollout decision-making in one place.
Three types of feature flags, three different jobs. A quick guide to choosing the right one — with the scenario where each one fits.
No matter how good your staging environment is, production will surprise you. Here's how to limit the blast radius with a gradual rollout.
ENABLE_NEW_CHECKOUT=true looks like a feature flag. It isn't. Here's the difference between config and flags, and why it matters when you're moving fast.
A feature flag lets you enable or disable a feature at runtime without deploying. Kill switches, gradual rollouts, A/B tests — it all starts here.