There exists quite a bit of discussions on feature flags/toggles and why you would use them but most of the discussion on implementing them center around (web or client) apps. If your product/artif...

This problem confuses me the most when thinking about using feature toggles in applications. Most of the features require some changes in database. How then feature flag can be implemented to be ab...

I have been using 503 Service Unavailable or down for maintenance. However some http client libraries i.e. axios treat 503 as retriable error. It makes sense to retry it if the response is prod...

We have some Automation tests using the selenium web driver which are great and provide a really good regression pack. The problem is now we have feature toggles in our code. So I need to say ignor...

With .NET Core, in Startup.cs you have access to IHostingEnvironment from which you can get the EnvironmentName which corresponds to the value of the ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable set...

I have a requirement to implement feature toggling in my current project. I have no idea how to implement it from scratch in Java. I have read the theory behind the feature toggling at various art...

The company that I work for has gone off the deep end with feature toggles-configuration keys that turn on/off particular behavior based on certain conditions. Martin Fowler actually refers to them...

I have a Spring Boot application with a lot of @Component, @Controller, @RestController annotated components. There are about 20 different features which I would like to toggle separatly. It is imp...

How does one go about testing when using feature toggles? You want your development computer to be as close to production as possible. From videos I watched, feature toggles are implemented in a wa...

Our clients get to choose when to upgrade. So, my team literally has to maintain and support dozens of versions of our software product. As you can imagine that results in a lot of branching and me...

I just stumbled across the concept of feature flagging, and a popular open source Java lib for this called Togglz, which quotes a Martin Fowler blog post: The basic idea is to have a configurati...

Recently I've read a number of articles talking about the idea of using "feature toggles" or "gatekeepers" to keep features hidden from users until the development is done. Facebook and Flickr both...

What are "Feature Toggles" and "Feature Branches" and what's the difference between them? What are the pros and cons? Why is one better than the other? I found some articles on Google regarding t...

How can I feature toggle java annotations? Simple feature toggle:- if(toggle enabled) do x Spring allows the use of "profiles" to toggle beans. I use these and they are fine but I'd like to togg...

Feature toggling works perfectly for a new functionality - in most cases the functionality should be simply surrounded with some UI container that will be visible or not based on feature configurat...

I want to use the feature-toggle paradigm. Specifically, I want my Spring contexts to contain different bean definitions based on a toggle. I've come across this: http://robertmaldon.blogspot.com...

I have read a lot about feature toggles but have no practical experience of using them. What tools and techniques do people recommend for effective management of feature toggles? I imagine the sim...