You're reading from Accelerate DevOps with GitHub Enhance software delivery performance with GitHub Issues, Projects, Actions, and Advanced Security

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813358

Length 540 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Michael Kaufmann

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Table of Contents (31) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Lean Management and Collaboration

2. Chapter 1: Metrics That Matter FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Plan, Track, and Visualize Your Work

4. Chapter 3: Teamwork and Collaborative Development

5. Chapter 4: Asynchronous Work: Collaborate from Anywhere

6. Chapter 5: The Influence of Open and Inner Source on Software Delivery Performance

7. Part 2: Engineering DevOps Practices

8. Chapter 6: Automation with GitHub Actions

9. Chapter 7: Running Your Workflows

10. Chapter 8: Managing Dependencies Using GitHub Packages

11. Chapter 9: Deploying to Any Platform

12. Chapter 10: Feature Flags and the Feature Lifecycle

13. Chapter 11: Trunk-Based Development

14. Part 3: Release with Confidence

15. Chapter 12: Shift Left Testing for Increased Quality

16. Chapter 13: Shift-Left Security and DevSecOps

17. Chapter 14: Securing Your Code

18. Chapter 15: Securing Your Deployments

19. Part 4: Software Architecture

20. Chapter 16: Loosely Coupled Architecture and Microservices

21. Chapter 17: Empower Your Teams

22. Part 5: Lean Product Management

23. Chapter 18: Lean Product Development and Lean Startup

24. Chapter 19: Experimentation and A|B Testing

25. Part 6: GitHub for your Enterprise

26. Chapter 20: GitHub – The Home for All Developers

27. Chapter 21: Migrating to GitHub

28. Chapter 22: Organizing Your Teams

29. Chapter 23: Transform Your Enterprise

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Frameworks and products

There are many frameworks available that you can leverage when implementing Feature Flags. The framework that is the best for you depends a lot on your programming languages and use cases. Some focus more on UI integration, some more on rollout and operations. When picking your framework, you should consider the following aspects:

Performance: Feature Flags must be fast and must not reduce the performance of your application. Proper caching should be used and also default values that are used if the data store cannot be reached on time.
Supported programming languages: Your solution should work with all your languages, especially when you use client-side flags; you must also evaluate them on the server for security reasons. You don't want to configure the flags in different locations.
UI integration: If you want to provide the users with the ability to opt in or out of features, you want a good integration into your UI. Normally, you need...