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Date Published
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Michael Beemer
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859
Language
American English
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Summary

Earlier this year, Dynatrace announced its participation in the open-source project OpenFeature, which has since been accepted as a sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). OpenFeature, backed by leading feature flag companies, provides a vendor-neutral specification and software development kits (SDKs) for various programming languages, facilitating the rapid release and testing of software features. Feature flags, which act as runtime toggles for application functionality, have become crucial for organizations aiming to balance speed with software quality, enabling agile development practices such as hypothesis-driven development and experimentation. OpenFeature offers a vendor-agnostic API that promotes interoperability, allowing teams to seamlessly integrate feature flagging with existing or new systems, and fostering a community of feature flag experts. For observability, OpenFeature's integration with Dynatrace's distributed tracing technology, PurePath®, allows teams to monitor feature flag impacts and make informed, data-driven decisions. The collaboration between Dynatrace and OpenFeature promises to enhance observability in feature flagging, with future plans to integrate with Dynatrace's Grail™ data lakehouse and Davis AI, making it an opportune time for organizations to explore this synergy at events like KubeCon 2022.