Feature Toggles - Why and How to Add to Your Software

A practical guide to feature toggles, starting with basic implementations and their pitfalls and moving to external toggle configuration. Learners set up Unleash open source and its proxy with Docker, create an API key, connect a React application through the proxy SDK, apply stickiness, context and segmentation strategies, run experiments with variants and analytics, and clean up stale toggles.

Syllabus

) Introduction to feature toggling with Ivar Østhus.
) Basic feature toggle implementation.
) Basic feature toggle pitfalls.
) Implementing an external feature toggle configuration.
) Feature toggle vendors.
) Unleash architecture.
) Setup unleash open source with docker.
) Create an API key.
) Setup unleash proxy with docker.
) Application overview and creating a feature toggle.
) Using feature toggles in a real application.
) Connecting to unleash with the react proxy sdk .
) Understanding stickiness and unleash context.
) Using strategies for segmentation.
) Introduction to Experimentation.
) Understanding variants .
) Implementing variants in our codebase.
) Using analytics providers to understand experiment data.
) Usage metrics.
) Technical debt and cleaning up feature toggles.
) Outro.