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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by yuppiepuppie on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:04AM (#50391380)
Configuration as a Service companies must be a having a tough time these days...

I couldnt imagine a lot of teams are debating anymore whether to build their own or use an off the shelf product like this. The former being a straight forward task for an LLM. And the latter being a point of failure/attack for any one want to mess with the core foundations of a product.

Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by leetrout on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:21AM (#50391506)
At a certain scale (probably bimodal distribution) it makes sense to have a provider you can shrug it off to and point the finger to when things are missing features or the system goes down, etc etc. On the big-co end of that spectrum I think you are right and AI makes this stuff easy to launch internally.

The owner at my current gig has multiple times said "software is over" as it being a sort of gravy train of rent seeking. Products are gonna have to offer real / significant value to attract new customers. Maybe even to keep them, too...

Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by skeeter2020 on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:57AM (#50391781)
>> and point the finger to when things are missing features or the system goes down

This sounds good in theory but - and I speak from experience with a FF system causing a system-wide outage - clients don't care why YOU had an outage, or that it's not immediately your fault, and they really shouldn't have to. The reality is more like you're paying for a dependecy that you can't mitigate.

Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by hobofan on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:24AM (#50392629)
Being able to point fingers is also a moot point from a theoretical perspective.

Given that every FF system comes with a bunch of different mechanisms that prevent your system from being catastrophically impacted in case the provider goes down, its still the fault of the integrating party if you experience an outage due to a FF provider.

Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by gerardnico on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:28AM (#50391561)
You miss where the value of software is nowadays. Just the hosting of this thing is worse to pay for.
Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by FinnKuhn on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:12AM (#50391917)
Companies as well as people are still happy to pay for the second S in SaaS.

Building something, updating it, running it, testing etc. still requires resources and attention. One example for this would be taxis. You pay for the comfort of not having to drive the car, do maintenance, take into account road works, cleaning, etc. and not because you couldn't drive a car yourself. That time you can use instead to focus on your actual business.

Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by higeorge13 on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:13AM (#50391924)
Analytics, documentation, configuration, etc saas companies must be having the same hard time.
Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by chanhyounglee on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:16AM (#50394315)
I build a B2B SaaS. I ran the same PDF through my product and a general-purpose AI. Both had zero number errors, and the AI's design was good enough. So I don't expect people to pay for the output. I think what's left is what happens after: who opened it, inquiries, spec changes, and team collaboration.