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Ask HN: Open-source feature flag service?

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Re: Ask HN: Open-source feature flag service?

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Why would you need a service to manage your feature flags?

Ditto. One must already be using a database, so just add a table for features that you flip off and on.

How could that possibly be more work than integrating API calls to a third party service just to ascertain a few (mostly unchanging) values?

Re: Ask HN: Open-source feature flag service?

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post #7

Why would you need a service to manage your feature flags?

Ditto. One must already be using a database, so just add a table for features that you flip off and on. How could that possibly be more work than integrating API calls to a third party service just to ascertain a few (mostly unchanging) values?

When the major tech companies use a piece of infra, it’s likely they have a good reason. Here are some.

- not necessarily using/in control of db - audit log of who toggled which features and when - reporting on users exposed to each feature - A/B test support - toggle features without touching production database - ...