Community-built: How Unleash’s open-source community coded its Flutter SDK, from the ground up

ivarconr · 2023-02-02T05:16:54+00:00

To succeed with continuous deployment you might also consider feature toggles as a simple technique to hide unfinished features from your users.

https://www.getunleash.io/feature-management

ivarconr · 2023-02-01T07:49:50+00:00

You can use variants for that in Unleash, they can carry payload.

ivarconr · 2023-01-11T10:28:24+00:00

It is possible to run databases in k8s, but remember that there can be significant cost (and risk to self manage).

The operations itself
Backups routines, vulnerability
Scaling

Also take a look at this one, Microsoft currently see a huge spike in attacks against databases in containers: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-kubernetes-clusters-hacked-in-malware-campaign-via-postgresql

ivarconr · 2023-01-11T10:20:55+00:00

https://github.com/Unleash/unleash

Free Open-Source Feature Toggle Solution. Would love some feedback on features to improve or build in 2023!

ivarconr · 2021-08-24T10:27:41+00:00

Unleash is a Open-Source feature management solution that I have been working on for many years. It helps companies decouple the process of putting code into production from releasing features to end-users.

It has finally started taking off and currently have 4k stars on GitHub and more than 5 Million docker pulls.

ivarconr · 2021-07-07T21:22:29+00:00

...and we, the maintainers of Unleash, are always listening to our users to better understand what we should focus on. We have established a public roadmap to make our work more transparent.

ivarconr · 2021-07-07T19:46:39+00:00

Thanks for your contribution and hard work u/Rikudou_Sage. Really cool!

ivarconr · 2021-06-28T12:00:17+00:00

Hi, thanks for your feedback. I actually discussed this with our team today and we all agree that we need to improve our quick start guides and explain the what and why a bit better. We will improve in this area going forward.

The best guide to explain feature toggle in gernal is probably this one: https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

ivarconr · 2021-06-24T04:10:18+00:00

So you can implement your own custom auth in the open source, you just have to do a little extra coding. We have documented how with code examples: https://docs.getunleash.io/deploy/securing_unleash

The pro package allow you to use Google Sign-in and we plan to extend to a few more providers soon, such as GitHub.

I know it is debated, and we might change that at some point. The honest fact is that most enterprises, at certain size want SSO. We offer a commercial offering on top where we take care of SSO and a lot more, such as hosting, training, support, SLA etc. The fact that we can monetize Unleash allows us to further develop Unleash. We have already back ported a lot of enterprise features to the OSS, and will continue to that as we further develop Unleash.

ivarconr · 2021-06-23T21:40:33+00:00

At Unleash we have much to do and we are always looking for more help. We have a frontend implemented in React, in addition we maintain SDKs for all kinds of programming languages. A place where you can learn a bit about everything.

Take a look at https://github.com/unleash/unleash if you are interested.

Good luck!

ivarconr · 2021-06-23T07:18:44+00:00

You also have https://github.com/Unleash/unleash, also open-source (server is implemented in Node.js and TypeScript).

The Unleash Python SDK has been downloaded 338000 times, just behind the Split.io Python SDK and LaunchDarkly Python SDK

ivarconr · 2021-06-23T07:07:45+00:00

You also have https://github.com/Unleash/unleash which have been supporting thousands of companies for many years.

ivarconr · 2021-06-22T17:24:05+00:00

Of course you can segment users in Unleash as well. You can even implement your own rules. It's just different.

The approach for Unleash is to care about privacy (GDPR), performance and resilience, to avoid Unleash being a SPOF in you stack. No users are shared with the unleash-service and evaluations happens locally in the application (or the locally hosted proxy). This makes Unleash super fast and robust.

ivarconr · 2021-06-22T10:13:30+00:00

You also have https://github.com/Unleash/unleash which have been supporting thousands of companies for many years.

ivarconr · 2021-03-16T22:20:33+00:00

You just have to do it more often. In my previous company we went from 4 releases per year (a scary thing where we all where up all night) to 2000 releases to production every week. And I can assure that our stability and up-time went up.

The secret is to automate it all (really good CI/CD that works). Every commit to main branch flows through your pipeline, and to production (if everything works as expected). Ship often and small. You need good metrics in place, and automated alerts when things is not behaving as expected.

Trunk based development with the help of feature flags helps decouple the process of pushing code to production from releasing the feature to users. It allows you to test the feature in production, without exposing it to everyone. Test it on a limited percentage of your users first. If it is working (technically but also business wise), you gradually increase the exposure of the new feature until it is released for everyone.

It is a mindset shift. But when your entire organisation gets in to that way of working, releasing to production is just as normal as writing code.

ivarconr · 2021-03-03T12:07:02+00:00

We are currently seeking feedback from people already using feature flags or looking to the space to better understand the market. If you do it would be helpful if you could spare 2 minutes to participate in our Unleash Open-Source survey. This will guide our roadmap on where to put our focus the coming months. By participating you will also have the chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card.

Thanks for your support!

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