Feature Toggles with Daniel Piessens
Are you adding feature toggles to your apps? Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Piessens about his approach to adding feature toggles, using frameworks to keep things organized. The conversation starts out talking about different kinds of features toggles, starting with the classic one that allows you to build features over time, but keep the code in the trunk, just not visible to the users until you're ready. In some cases, that feature toggle because permanent because it is a tool for ops to reduce load on a server at peak times. Toggles are also a strategy for A/B testing of different features, styling and advertising - you need to dig into this!
Guests:
Daniel Piessens
Having over 15 years of experience in the software industry, Daniel Piessens has built world class enterprise applications in the transportation, insurance, and healthcare industries. He was a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion and is regular adviser to Microsoft on DevOps related topics. Dan speaks regularly at conferences such as Agile and DevOps Days, but also enjoys the local user group. After 4 years in the Agile and DevOps consulting space, Dan recently returned to the product world as VP of Product Development for Tricast. When he's not geeking out, you can find him spending time with wife and three children.
Links:
- Screen2GIF https://screentogif.codeplex.com/
- Tricast http://www.tricast.com/
- Feature Toggles from Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
- FeatureToggle on GitHub https://github.com/jason-roberts/FeatureToggle
- LaunchDarkly https://launchdarkly.com/
- OpenAPS https://openaps.org/
- FeatureSwitch on GitHub https://github.com/valdisiljuconoks/FeatureSwitch
- nToggle https://github.com/SteveMoyer/nToggle