Using Feature Flags For Testing In Production

Amy Tom talks to Yoz Grahame, a Solutions Architect at LaunchDarkly about feature flags. 🏴 Yoz has worn many hats in his tech career - from programming to movie production to developer advocacy - he seems like he's done it all! Yoz talks about his career and how he ended up at LaunchDarkly. Amy gets curious about feature flags and how they work. 🤓

In this episode of The Hacker Noon Podcast:

• Yoz says that as you become a more experienced engineer, you realize that it is your ability to communicate with others that is important 🗣 (5:40)
• Yoz took an interest in tech at 5 or 6 years old and learned basic programming on a Sinclair ZX80 (09:15)
• Yoz talks about how he worked on The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in the late '90s 👍 (12:39)
• Amy asks if Yoz has suffered from switching projects too many times and gets his thoughts on corporate loyalty (16:20)
• Sooooo Amy wants to know Yoz's process for evaluating project opportunities 🤔 (21:14)
• What's tech scene like in London? (27:30)
• Amy attempts to explain feature flags - it actually goes pretty well 😎 (30:30)
• Yoz talks about the idea of testing in production (36:28)
• Is there a situation where feature flags don't make sense? ⛳️ (41:10)

Connect with Yoz and LaunchDarkly

• Follow Yoz on Twitter @yoz
• Follow LaunchDarkly on Twitter @LaunchDarkly

Shownotes:

• Yoz mentions Today in tabs by Rusty Foster: https://www.todayintabs.com/
• Yoz mentions Dave Pell's newsletter: https://nextdraft.com/
• Sign up for the Hacker Noon newsletter: https://help.hackernoon.com/customize-your-tech-brief