What are Feature Flags? | How to implement Feature Flags in your software

A detailed guide to feature flags: what they are feature flags and how to implement feature flags in your software. Get started with Unleash: https://getunleash.io

Learn why and how to add feature flags (aka feature toggles) to your software. We go through the basics of what feature flags are, how you can use them, and how they can help you to improve the workflow of your development team to accelerate time to delivery. We start off by interviewing Ivar Østhus, the founder of Unleash — an open-source feature flag tool — and then continue to look into basic feature flags use cases and how you can set up Unleash open source to tackle more advanced use cases and scenarios.

Feature toggling resources
🔗 https://martinfowler.com/articles/fea...
🔗 https://www.getunleash.io/blog/featur...

✏️ Instructor: Fredrik Strand Oseberg
🐦 Twitter: @foseberg
🔗 Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZTe...

🎤 Interview subject: Ivar Østhus
🐦 Twitter: @ivarconr

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⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction to feature flagging with Ivar Østhus
⌨️ (0:14:36) Basic feature flags implementation
⌨️ (0:24:49) Basic feature flags pitfalls
⌨️ (0:27:22) Implementing an external feature flag configuration
⌨️ (0:47:07) Feature flag vendors
⌨️ (0:51:19) Unleash architecture
⌨️ (0:56:00) Setup unleash open-source with docker
⌨️ (1:00:06) Create an API key
⌨️ (1:01:59) Setup unleash proxy with docker
⌨️ (1:01:59) Application overview and creating a feature flag
⌨️ (1:10:20) Using feature flags in a real application
⌨️ (1:12:26) Connecting to Unleash with the react proxy sdk
⌨️ (1:16:57) Understanding stickiness and Unleash context
⌨️ (1:26:03) Using strategies for segmentation
⌨️ (1:31:23) Introduction to Experimentation
⌨️ (1:33:49) Understanding variants
⌨️ (1:37:08) Implementing variants in our codebase
⌨️ (1:43:14) Using analytics providers to understand experiment data
⌨️ (1:47:31) Usage metrics
⌨️ (1:49:22) Technical debt and cleaning up feature flags
⌨️ (1:52:00) Outro