Feature Flagging at Scale
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The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
David Josephsen, librato.com
Librato runs a distributed time-series data storage, analysis, and alerting platform as a service. In this talk we describe our internal feature-flagging system, which combines Rollout[1], ZooKeeper[2] and our in-house campfire chatbot (twke[3]) to transparently enable features for targeted production end-users without disrupting other customers.
David Josephsen, Librato

As the developer evangelist for Librato, Dave Josephsen hacks on tools, writes about statistics, systems monitoring, alerting, metrics collection and visualization, and generally does anything he can to help engineers and developers close the feedback loop in their systems. He writes the "iVoyer" column on systems monitoring in ;login: magazine.
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author = {David Josephsen},
title = {Feature Flagging at Scale},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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