What is a Feature Flag in Software and Why Is It Useful?

[@WTFAnyNameWorks]

Man, this channel is amazing. How come I never heard of it before, you keep up the good work ❤🎉

[@BeABetterDev]

Thank you and welcome! :)

[@ropro9817]

I'm already familiar with feature flags, but I still learned something new from this video. AWS AppConfig! 🤠

[@BeABetterDev]

Definitely a service to try!

[@snksba]

Well understood on a high level. Thanks Daniel. Appreciate you efforts.

[@BeABetterDev]

Glad it was helpful!

[@anil4695]

I am so happy that I came across this channel .

[@BeABetterDev]

Welcome and thank you for the kind words!

[@stardriver8660]

your channel is so useful!

[@aliasuser958]

You are doing Gods work Daniel

[@andresdigi25]

In our company we are using aws secrets manager to put our configs and to put entries that works as feature flags

[@BeABetterDev]

This could work for simple use cases. If you have complex objects this may become more problematic especially if you require version history.

[@andresdigi25]

@@BeABetterDev Totally true. We are not doing version history. But so far secrets manager covers our reqs. Anyway thanks for sharing info about that service. Btw i am preparing a presentation about sqs vs eventbridge, vs sns vs s3 vs API gateway events in lambda. How to manage retries, errors, etc. Some of your videos had been helpful for that

[@AriKhuu]

thank you!

[@PankajSingh-kq2gj]

So this reading of config happens at runtime?
Btw thanks for the informative video as always.

[@BeABetterDev]

Hey Pankaj,
Yep it happens at runtime for each invocation. You can also add a caching strategy to not hit the data store for the config too often.

[@PankajSingh-kq2gj]

Thanks, that makes sense. One more question, does AppConfig give out of the box caching capabilities somehow or do I need to use some other caching service? If yes which one.
Thanks a lot for your time.

[@sriharans4189]

Oh Feature flag is weblab?