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...
Merge Conflict: Everything You Need to Know
Previously, I wrote a long-form post about merge conflict. This time, I’m going to mix things up with an FAQ on the subject. Many of these frequently asked questions could be their own standalone articles....
Is DevOps Really for All Types of Organizations?
DevOps has become a very popular practice in the software industry. And the reason is that people are delivering better software more quickly. It’s standard nowadays to hear that some companies are doing...
Why Having a Feature Flag Microservice Is a Bad Idea
Perhaps you have built a tight feature flag package that you can deploy. It has a Slick REST API in a microservice where you can query a flag saying, “Are you on?” It seems easy for other services to...