Python Feature Flag Guide
You’re doing it right. You’ve set up an array of microservices that offer REST APIs to support an enterprise application. Your architecture is comprised of loosely coupled services that have enabled...
Unit Testing Best Practices When You Have External Dependencies
Here at the Rollout blog, we often sing the praises of continuous integration and its siblings, continuous development and continuous deployment. Having a great unit test suite is a key component of enabling these...
Git Create Branch: 4 Ways to Do It
If you write software for a living in 2018, then I can say with confidence you’re familiar with Git. The tool created by Linus Torvalds has become synonymous with version control. And without a doubt, one of...
Demystifying Serverless Computing: Definition, Tutorial, and Examples
Serverless computing is getting more and more attention every day. It all started in 2014 when Amazon Web Services launched AWS Lambda, one of the first function as a service (FaaS) cloud computing services to...
A Guide to Getting Started Quickly With AngularJS Feature Flags
Want to become an expert in feature flagging in AngularJS? Perfect. You’re in the right place. Because today we’re going to do just that—go through the ins and outs of feature flagging in AngularJS. In this...
How to Test in Your Local Environment When Using a Feature Flag Management System
Feature flag management systems are wonderful things, leagues above the normal “throw all my feature flags into a config file” technique. They let you change them at runtime, sometimes with a fancy...
Server-Side Rendering: Everything You Need to Know
Not long ago, servers ruled the land of web applications. They stood tall, rendering screens for their users and offering up gigs of processing power to perform actions. You went to a URL, and that server gave you...
The Value of Feature Flags in CI/CD
Using feature flags is a technique that will help you integrate code into a shared repository at least once a day and ship it, even if you haven’t finished the feature yet. You’ll be able to deploy at...
A Guide to Getting Started Quickly With .NET Feature Flags
A feature flag isn’t a difficult concept to grasp. You just add an “if” instruction to your app and then remove it whenever you think the feature is ready to be used in production. Is that worthy...
Feature Visibility Is the Key to Modern Software Agility
Let’s start off by coining a term: feature visibility. You can infer meaning from the component words. I’m not getting overly creative here. Feature visibility is simply the idea that anyone in your...
What Are Audit Logs?
The concept of audit logs is simple. When a change is applied to a system, it correlates with a change in the system’s behavior. That change should be documented in an audit log. Per Wikipedia: “An audit trail...
Hand-Rolled Solutions: A Fun Waste of Time
Making a hand-rolled solution to a common problem is a waste of time and resources. Sure, it’s fun for us developers to build something to do X! But when X doesn’t differentiate the company, it’s...