Topic: feature flags
Use feature flags to make your website more accessible
Being able-bodied is a temporary condition. Some of us are born with disabilities, and some of us develop them. At some point in your life, you will get old enough to need reading glasses, or you will break your arm, or you will develop hearing problems. Are you reading this page through glasses? Are you … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Bullet Train
This week’s featured open-source project is Bullet Train, which enables developers to manage feature flags across web, mobile, and server side applications. The application consists of three components: the Server-Side REST API, the Front End Administration Web Interface, and Client Libraries. The Server Side API is written in Python and is based on Django and … continue reading
Harness announces Continuous Integration Enterprise and Continuous Features modules for software delivery
CI/CD and DevOps tool provider Harness is preparing for the next-generation of software delivery with the announcement of two new modules at its {Unscripted} 2020 inaugural user conference this week. The new modules, Continuous Integration Enterprise and Continuous Features, are designed to enforce quality and compliance, reduce the time to remediate vulnerabilities, and provide continuous … continue reading
LaunchDarkly adds flag triggers for Honeycomb and Datadog
Feature management company LaunchDarkly has announced that it is adding flag triggers through new integrations with Honeycomb and Datadog. Flag triggers are one-step automations that can be triggered after a specific alert goes off or a performance metric is met. They work by sending webhooks to a URL. This allows them to be turned on … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Airship launches free feature flags, Codefresh Runner,and dotData Enterprise 2.0
Airship launched free feature flags by Apptimize, enabling app developers to control the scope and timing of feature launches to validate success and reduce risk prior to full rollout. Developers can use Apptimize Feature Flags to choose when and to whom new features are accessible, and easily turn them on or off. In addition to … continue reading
Progress OpenEdge 12.2, CloudBees’ on-prem feature flagging, and Applause Functional Testing
Progress OpenEdge 12.2 delivers new capabilities that address the demand for continuous operations such as immediate auto recovery and improved performance and availability monitoring through new DevOps tooling. An API-first approach allows OpenEdge to become a truly open platform with service and data integration, big data and data warehousing, according to the company. Progress also … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Piranha
Uber has announced it is open-sourcing Piranha, an automated source-to-source code refactoring tool that automatically deletes stale code and feature flags when they become obsolete. Piranha is currently implemented for Objective-C, Swift, and Java programs so far. “These nonfunctional feature flags represent technical debt, making it difficult for developers to work on the codebase, and … continue reading
Learning about your software progressively
Progressive delivery is the natural extension of continuous delivery but refines what it means to “deliver” because unlike the ‘big bang’ of an all-or-nothing release cutover, progressive delivery enables the business to gradually expose new functionality to limited numbers of users to assess the impact on user behavior and system health before expanding the release … continue reading
Industry Watch: What follows CD? Progressive delivery
Software development and delivery practices continue to evolve and change, so on the heels of the late October DevOps Enterprise Summit, attendees and journalists alike have been asking, ‘Where does it all go from here?’ One area involves value streams, the creation of which allow organizations to see waste in their organization and eliminate for … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Cohesity Agile Dev and Test, Split’s automated error detection for feature flags, and Neural Structured Learning in TensorFlow
Cohesity launched its Cohesity Agile Dev and Test solution to provide teams with a self-service provisioning model that gives them rapid access to backup data and control mechanisms to ensure data remains secure and in compliance. “Cohesity Agile Dev and Test is a logical extension and significant enhancement to our data management platform, not only … continue reading
The feature launch in 5 key phases: A DevOps cheat sheet
The process of launching a new feature has changed a lot over the last decade. Ten years ago, a feature launch was commonly tied to code release. This meant that when the release branch was merged into master and pushed to production, new features riding on that branch would be launched to customers. RELATED CONTENT: … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Optimizely Rollouts, Parasoft’s Jtest and dotTest, and DataStax announces cloud-native data platform
Digital experience optimization provider Optimizely has announced Optimizely Rollouts, a free tool that lets developers adopt feature flags. By using these feature flags, teams can “target key audiences, update features on the fly and easily roll back poorly performing features ensuring a better product and customer experience,” the company explained. Optimizely Rollouts includes unlimited feature … continue reading
