Feature flags — the on/off toggles, written in conditional statements, that allow organizations greater control over the user experience once code has been deployed — are proliferating and growing more complex, and demand robust feature management, said https://www.linkedin.com/in/karishmairani/ head of product at https://launchdarkly.com/?utm_content=inline-mention in this episode of The New Stack Makers. In a November survey by LaunchDarkly, which queried more than 1,000 DevOps professionals, https://thenewstack.io/launchdarkly-feature-management-is-a-must-have/ for their organizations.
The idea of feature management, Irani said, is to “maximize value while minimizing risk.”
As part of LaunchDarkly’s https://launchdarkly.com/trajectory/2022/ in November, Irani joined https://thenewstack.io/author/hjoslyn/ features editor of The New Stack, for a wide-ranging conversation about the latest developments in feature management.
“And so our goal with Feature Workflows was to essentially automate the entire process of a feature release.”