Code Shipping - Feature Development / Planning

Ostensibly, rapid deployment is at odds with feature development that requires large changes to the codebase. The solution is to break down such changes into a sequence of smaller and safer ones, hidden behind an abstraction.

For example, data migration from an existing store to a new one can be broken down. See data migration example

• uservoice.com: Feature request dashboard example: Ezoic
• github: https://github.com/features/project-management/

Features can be in one of 4 states:

• Internal
• Incubating
• Public
• Deprecated

See Gradle example

Feature_toggle

A feature toggle (also feature switch, feature flag, feature flipper, conditional feature, etc.) is a switch that can enable or disable a feature at run time (generally for a subset of the users via a web interface).

It's a an alternative to feature branches where a feature can be tested even before it is completed and ready for release.

Platform: launchdarkly.com