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Date Published
Author
Risk Olson
Word count
211
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Recent discussions have highlighted strategies for rolling out new features, with Ross at Flickr using flags and flippers and Forrst utilizing user buckets to fine-tune their implementations. These methods are praised for their simplicity and adaptability. Initially, user feature flags were employed to grant beta access for the Orgs launch, but concerns arose about enabling the feature for entire teams, leading to conditional UI statements. Frequent deployments can clutter commit histories with minor tweaks, so a shift towards using Redis for configuration management was explored. This approach allowed for traffic distribution to new servers and easy bug fixes by adjusting Redis values without redeployment. Redis' Set commands are also considered for potential bucket management, demonstrating its versatility in feature rollout processes.