Toggle Talk with Damian Brady

Damian Brady, Solution Architect at Octopus Deploy, shares his insights on feature flagging. He believes feature flags are most useful for testing features with real data and ensuring they work as expected before full release. However, he advises against using them for small changes or major architectural alterations. Brady emphasizes the importance of testing feature flags "on" and "off" to avoid potential issues such as data corruption. He also highlights how feature flagging can benefit continuous delivery and deployment by allowing safe rollouts of new features in production. As DevOps becomes more popular, Brady expects increased adoption of feature flags and the development of more tools and frameworks to support best practices in this area.