Re:Feature Toggles
by misterkwon on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @03:23AM
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Has anyone tried Launchdarkly for this?
While it looks pretty slick, I wouldn't personally pay a monthly fee for feature flagging. Our (pretty basic) implementation is just over 50 lines of code, and allows us to do all the targeting we need - either individual users, or particular groups of users we've tagged as having the feature. It just doesn't seem worth shelling out extra for that.
You seem to be working on the assumption that everything has to be toggled or nothing. What we did was to collect the additional information for everyone (its a low risk change after all), and then slowly roll out the new payment API, starting with staff, then friends & family, and finally doing a phased rollout to customers.
Feature toggling not only allowed us to roll it out, but also to rapidly roll it back to deal with issues, and resulted in a very smooth implementation of a feature that had potential to directly affect revenue.