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Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide

You're reading from   Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide Start your journey to successful adoption of CD and DevOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788995474
Length 270 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface The Evolution of Software Delivery Understanding Your Current Pain Points FREE CHAPTER Culture and Behaviors are the Cornerstones to Success Planning for Success Approaches, Tools, and Techniques Avoiding Hurdles Vital Measurements You Are Not Finished Just Yet Expanding Your Opportunity Horizon CD and DevOps Beyond Traditional Software Delivery Some Useful Information Other Books You May Enjoy

Reducing feature-flag complexity

There are many established approaches to allow for different use cases or user flows to be switched on and off in real time, but most revolve around some sort of feature flag or configuration setting within the platform. Although this is a viable approach, it does add something to the code base, which can, over time, become a massive headache. That something is complexity.

Not only does this add complexity to the code base, it also adds complexity to related activities such as testing and the setup/support of the overall platform, especially if you start to chain the feature flags together. For example, let's assume you have a new reporting feature (let's call it feature C) that is automatically enabled if the reporting menu feature (let's call it feature B) is manually enabled and the legacy-reporting feature (let's call that...

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