Cloudflare Flagship

Post by roerohan » Wed, May 27, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC

OptionOfT wrote: post #23

crabmusket wrote: post #22

Looking at the docs for their JS SDK, they have this warning: > The client provider requires an API token to fetch flag values. This token is not scoped to a single app, so anyone with the token can evaluate flags across all apps in your account. Use the client provider with caution in public-facing applications. https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/sdk/client-provid... Can anyone clarify... why the client SDK,…

Let's think about it. This is probably something used internally at CloudFlare and someone thought I'd be interesting to make it public. There is no way 6 months ago someone at CloudFlare thought it was a good idea to build a competitor to say LaunchDarkly.

Post by Ayush_Khati1 » Wed, May 27, 2026, 4:02 AM UTC

btown wrote: post #34

Never underestimate the power of a zero-network-hop abstraction over f(feature_name, context). And context can be extremely tailored to your niche: specific inventory, from a specific supplier, for a specific user of a specific B2B client of a specific business model subtype, who should or shouldn’t see certain features on that specific inventory at certain times. When you can write your own logic, and just run this…

Post by qzgrid37 » Wed, May 27, 2026, 4:03 AM UTC

Post by stingraycharles » Wed, May 27, 2026, 4:04 AM UTC

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #31

OptionOfT wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's think about it. This is probably something used internally at CloudFlare and someone thought I'd be interesting to make it public. There is no way 6 months ago someone at CloudFlare thought it was a good idea to build a competitor to say LaunchDarkly.

Hmm not sure I necessarily agree. Cloudflare's strategy has been looking like "the only platform you need" for a while now. Their recent features / announcements have been equivalent to: (LaunchDarkly) Resend, Firecrawl, CrewAI, Helicone, Replicate, Pinecone - Which like… many companies have a painful procurement process. If all you need is Cloudflare, and prices are within reason- why not use them

Post by tuananh » Wed, May 27, 2026, 4:15 AM UTC

dboreham wrote: post #16

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #14

Has anyone struggled to run their own feature flagging service? After root causing slow app starts to be caused by the equivalent offering from Firebase, I've been cautious to use any off the shelf solutions

It's literally a field in your database. I could never fathom why this needs to be an outsourced service never mind an entire company.