DevOps in the Spotlight

VSW11 Feature Flags for Better DevOps

11/20/2019

2:00pm - 3:15pm

Level: Intermediate

Mickey Gousset

DevOps Architect

GitHub

Feature Flags provide a set of patterns that can help your team deliver new functionality to users rapidly and safely. In this session, Mickey will cover the what of feature flags–also known as feature toggles. You'll then learn some uses cases for feature flags like separating code deployments from feature releases, doing canary launches, and testing in production. You'll learn how the Azure Devops team uses feature flags and see how you can add feature flags to your own apps with examples using ASP.NET and custom code as well as a commercial product, LaunchDarkly, which offers features flags as a service.

You will learn:

  • What are feature flags
  • Use cases for feature flags
  • How to implement feature flags in your applications