I’ve had a lot of fun building featureflag.tech over these last few years, and while I’m sad it hasn’t worked out I have gained a load of new experiences I wouldn’t have got working at my day job (engineering manager). There’s been some tough lessons from a business perspective, but…

Yes, this involves feature flags. Making a change to your live environment is always risky. Not only is there a risk that you can introduce new bugs into existing features, but the new feature you’re trying to release will behave differently in an environment it’s not been in before. Even…

At featureflag.tech we believe that all dev teams should have the ability to quickly and efficiently take advantage of feature flags when building software. To help all engineers do this we’ve built featureflag.tech to be… Quick to set up (under two minutes) Very simple to use (6 lines of code…

Like many other people I was very disappointed with the ending of Game of Thrones. When watching GoT for all these years I thought I had been watching a very tightly crafted story, with characters being developed for a very specific pay off at the end. Unfortunately I don’t think…

Making your own feature flag service is inexpensive and easy Tom Maslen is the creator of featureflag.tech — a fully managed feature flag service that is simpler than a self hosted Open Source solution and better value than “enterprise” alternatives. …

Tom Maslen is the creator of featureflag.tech — a fully managed feature flag service that is simpler than a self hosted Open Source solution and better value than “enterprise” alternatives. Here he talks about how to get started, and compares the options on offer. Feature flags are becoming an increasingly…

Attention IntelliJ users: Working on multiple projects? Too many environment variables set globally? Or maybe the environment variables for each project are clashing? Then you need local environment variables! Local environment variables are env vars that get set and unset as you change directories. They are super useful as they…

If you could time travel backwards to 6 months ago, what would you do? Buy shares in an anti-virus company? Tell Jared Kushner not to go to that meeting? Or maybe book your May 2017 holiday with a company other than British Airways? If I could time travel backwards to…

I’ve been making websites for almost 20 years. One of the reasons why I began web development was because of the rapid feedback cycle: make a change to a file in a text editor, quick tab to the browser, hit refresh and see the change immediately. …