OpenFeature Summit NA 2024
who it's for
platform engineers, backend developers, qa engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, release engineers, developer advocates
topics
OpenFeature Java SDK; OpenFeature JavaScript SDK; feature flags for CNIs; experimentation platform scaling; gradual rollout hashing algorithms; mocking feature flags in unit tests; migration to OpenFeature at scale; flag evaluation latency and performance; JSON dynamic feature flags; canary rollouts and kill switches; feature flag QA strategies; flag config in version control
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How to Rollout an Update for a CNI Without Breaking the World Wide Web | Jen Luther Thomas | 15m |
Project Calico uses feature flags to switch actual data planes (eBPF, iptables/ipvs, Windows HNS, VPP, nftables) and to enable BGP via BGP via bird; a missed… | ||
| Experimentation Programs at Scale: Lessons Learned from Top Companies | Graham McNicoll | 24m |
Companies report ranges from 3–5 tests per year to 50–60,000 simultaneous experiments and find only about a 30% success rate (industry averages 10–15%), so the… | ||
| Migrating to Open Feature at Scale: 0 to Billions | Chetan Kapoor, Justin Abrahms | 25m |
eBay replaces 25 legacy config APIs with an OpenFeature facade and an internal provider, authors a Java SDK, and folds flags into the existing Touchstone… | ||
| Test Smarter, Not Harder: QA Enhancements with OpenFeature | Meha Bhalodiya | 26m |
Concrete walk through of using OpenFeature SDK (JavaScript examples) to replace environment sprawl with standardized flags: boolean release flags, contextual… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Andrew Maclean | 04m |
Five-minute opening covers logistics and community notes: Wordly captioning is enabled for live translation, food and coffee sit on the upper mezzanine (level… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Andrew Maclean | 08m |
Announcements include OpenFeature Summit Europe 2025 in London April 1–4, 2025 and a runway of talks at KubeCon EU plus two local sessions this week (Wednesday… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Costs of Feature Flags: Understanding and Managing Adoption Challenges | Shreya Shivratriwar | 08m |
Argues that feature flags add measurable costs: three hidden costs—complexity in version management (multiple active states and broken backward compatibility)… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: Would a Gradual Rollout by Any Other Hashing Algorithm Still Smell as Sweet? | Chris Griffing | 08m |
Built a custom static git-native flag tool and benchmarked 50–60 hashing algorithms for gradual rollouts, measuring speed and distribution over 1,000+… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Mocking Feature Flags in Unit Tests | Aman Gadadare | 06m |
Demonstrates how OpenFeature replaces ad hoc mocks by using the OpenFeature Java SDK and its built-in mock provider to control flag state inside JUnit +… | ||
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