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Informing Stakeholders Isn’t the Same as Aligning Them

The first sign of trouble was a screenshot. We’d just switched on the A/B test via our feature management platform. Within the hour, a senior stakeholder landed in the variant feature flag, opened the app on their own phone, and s…

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Aug13

Blogs

Software Deployment Strategies for Enterprise Teams: A Scenario-Based Guide to Choosing the Right Approach

Choosing the right software deployment strategy depends on the scenario. Get a practical decision framework for enterprise teams.

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Oct27

Blogs

Patch Management is Essential for Securing DevOps

Zero-day exploits don’t wait for anyone and are one of the main reasons why the cybersecurity market will be worth a whopping $256 billion worldwide. In the current threat landscap…

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May22

Blogs

Datadog Expands Scope of Observability Ambitions

Datadog is expanding the scope of its DevOps portfolio following a pair of acquisitions that add feature flagging and data observability capabilities to its portfolio of services.

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Apr30

Application Performance Management/Monitoring

LaunchDarkly Acquires Highlight to Bring Observability to Application Release Management

LaunchDarkly is looking to bring observability to feature flag management by acquiring Highlight, a provider of an open-source application monitoring tool.

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Apr23

Video Interviews

Feature Management’s Role in DevOps with Trevor Stuart

Trevor Stuart, general manager and senior vice president of Harness, explains how feature management is becoming a critical extension of DevOps workflows a year after the acquisiti…

3 min

Feb20

Harnessing Generative AI for Feature Management Testing

Generative AI is revolutionizing the way we create testing environments and feature management within DevOps workflows.

3 min

Nov27

Application Performance Management/Monitoring

LaunchDarkly Previews Generative AI Testing Tool for Feature Management

LaunchDarkly previewed an ability to leverage generative AI capabilities to create experiments for its feature management platform.

3 min

Sep13

Blogs

Unused Code: Proving a Negative

Don MacVittie says there’s a lot of unused code floating around out there – and that’s a big problem.

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Mar08

Blogs

Raise Those (Feature) Flags

I’ve written about feature flags before, but I think it’s time for a solid bit of advice: “If you are not yet using feature flags for DevOps, it is past time to reconsider.” I say…

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Feb25

Application Performance Management/Monitoring

How SREs Benefit From Feature Flags

When you think of who uses feature flags, your mind most likely goes to software developers. In general, feature flags are closely associated with software engineering. But site re…

3 min

Jan19

Blogs

The Life and Times of Feature Flags

A while back, I had the opportunity to look closely at DevSecOps tools (as the market currently defines them). There was a lot to like, and they are moving forward to a “Find all o…

3 min

Jul29

Blogs

5 Ways to Reduce DevOps Toil

Over the last several years, DevOps has become a bit of a buzzword. It has become simultaneously a practice, a culture, a team, a job title and a vendor product. You can hire some…

3 min

Dec15

Blogs

Split Allies With AWS to Advance Feature Flagging Adoption

Split today announced it has integrated its namesake platform for managing feature flagging with the Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as part of an effort to streamline…

3 min

Nov10

Blogs

Accessibility and Feature Flags

Being able-bodied is a temporary condition. Some of us are born with disabilities, and some of us develop them. At some point in your life, you will get old enough to need reading…

3 min

Nov09

Blogs

Testing in Production 101

A top priority for developers is knowing that their new feature code will work in production before their user base has access to it. That’s why testing in production has been gain…

3 min

Oct07

Blogs

Maintaining Progressive Delivery Quality With Feature Flags

How does Netflix know exactly what you want to watch? How do social networks ensure major software updates are smoothly deployed across millions of users? The answer, in part, lies…

3 min

Jun25

Blogs

How to Reduce Engineer Burnout During COVID-19

Burnout is increasingly common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to cope effectively The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we all work, connect and live. Many teams have…

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May08

Blogs

CloudBees Brings Feature Flagging to On-Prem Environs

CloudBees this week announced an update to CloudBees Feature Flags that now makes it possible to deploy this capability in on-premises IT environments. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice…

3 min

Apr14

Blogs

In IT, Purity Is Not Necessarily a Virtue

Throughout the history of IT, we’ve had our share of purists. OS purists, language purists, etc. The stark one was the “That is not Object Oriented Programming” crowd. While the po…

3 min

Apr14

Blogs

Prevent Technical Debt by Knowing When to Remove Feature Flags

As more organizations use feature flags and experiments, it’s critical to understand that some of these changes should exist for only a short or specific period of time, and then b…

3 min

Jan27

Blogs

Pendulums and DevOps

I have long noted the trend of pendulums in IT, particularly in organizations with longer histories. Centralized IT will be achieved, its weaknesses noticed and a movement will beg…

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Dec18

Blogs

The Use of Feature Flags in Code: Too Many Flags?

It is interesting to watch the growth of an idea over time. The idea of using flags in code to do different things is as old as programming itself. Old-school configuration files u…

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Nov27

Blogs

DevOps: Get the Basics Right to Avoid Costly Mistakes

It is a truth of both agile and DevOps that speed is of the essence. This is a relative statement—some apps/portfolios/orgs envision speed completely differently than others—but if…

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