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Brandon Keepers retweeted
It's Friday, so we deployed 3 new features. JK, we deployed these days ago behind a feature flag. All we did today was push a couple buttons to flip on Project Overview, Feature Creators & Owners, and Read-only API for everyone.
blog.flippercloud.io/feature…
Brandon Keepers retweeted
According to rubygems, I have released 67 different gems. Those gems have been downloaded an astounding (to me) 624 million times.
But I've never released a 1.0. Until today! 🎉🥳🎊
Head over to johnnunemaker.com/flipper-1-… for the rest of the story (new teammate, sponsorships, generous free tier, etc.). Feels big!
If you use flipper or anything I've made in the past 20 years, I'd really appreciate you sharing this!
Brandon Keepers retweeted
Feature flags are amazing. I've said it before. I'll say it again (on repeat). They give you control so you can increase confidence and reduce accidents.
One way is by using objects other than "users" for flipping features. Flipper actors can be anything, even jobs!
We recently migrated to github.com/bensheldon/good_j… (and Rails ActiveJob) from delayed job with the snippet in the screenshot of this tweet and few Flipper.enable calls.
Zero outages and sweat.
Full story here: blog.flippercloud.io/migrati…
Have a crazier flipper actor story? I'd love to hear it.
Brandon Keepers retweeted
How we helped a customer migrate their Rails application
to a new ActiveJob backend -one job at a time-without
user-visible interruptions.
blog.flippercloud.io/migrati…
Brandon Keepers retweeted
🔥🐬
* 📥
* 📤
* 👨👩👧👦
* 📉
😎
The hits keep coming.
Import.
Export.
Pass multiple actors to Flipper.enabled? for more simple code and 2-5x faster checks.
Flippin' sweet!
Read more here:
buttondown.email/flipper/arc…
Brandon Keepers retweeted
Anyone out there with mad thread skills would be welcome to rip apart the background thread polling @bkeepers and I wrote a few weeks ago.
github.com/jnunemaker/flippe…
It's been working fine locally and in production, but I love learning so don't hold back.
Flipper Cloud polling improvements, a flipper-ui bug fix and more ENV vars to help configure railtie are the highlights today. Enjoy!
buttondown.email/flipper/arc…
Brandon Keepers retweeted
Today was a big deal for us.
We officially welcomed @bkeepers as an owner. This is his beautiful face after signing the paperwork.
He's already been working on things like automatic setup, docs and feature flag organization.
Pumped about the year ahead!
Brandon Keepers retweeted
Google interviewing people: "Design a system that can scale to billions of users, with a p99 of 30 seconds for data replication. We ask questions like this because this is the type of work you'd do here, day-in, day-out."
Also Google when changing your profile image:
Brandon Keepers retweeted
Docs. Docs. Docs.
Never thought I'd say it, but if you have a developer focused product, nothing will get more eyeballs to your site and more opportunities to "sell" than great docs.
We moved docs from GitHub repo to flippercloud.io/docs and doubled # of visitors/mo.
Brandon Keepers retweeted
Days of paid leave offered to new moms:
🇮🇪: 182
🇮🇹: 152
🇨🇦: 119
🇫🇷: 112
🇯🇵: 98
🇸🇪: 90
🇲🇽: 84
🇺🇸: 0
Absurd. The time is now to finally guarantee paid family and medical leave in this country.
Brandon Keepers retweeted
I'm not sure why trying to fight the debate to a messy, unwatchable draw is supposed to be a good strategy for Trump when he's 7 points behind in the polls.
Brandon Keepers retweeted
So Trump's gambit here is: You can't lose a debate if you destroy it.
Pretty much the same strategy he is using for the election.
Brandon Keepers retweeted
More than 200,000 Americans are dead.
That's not just a number. It's someone’s grandmother, someone’s father, someone’s best friend.
It's my brother, Don Reed.
Trump has spent this pandemic lying, pointing fingers, and playing politics—leaving a nation behind to grieve.
Brandon Keepers retweeted
Remember, your git history will outlast your move from BitBucket to GitHub to GitLab. It will outlast your move from Campfire to HipChat to Slack. It will outlast your move from Bugzilla to Redmine to Jira. It is the single best place for explaining why your code does anything.
Brandon Keepers retweeted
We should name mass shootings the way we do hurricanes but after Republicans who accept payments from the @NRA.
Brandon Keepers retweeted
So your treasured late-stage capitalist leaders... live in public housing?
Looks like you don’t have to be a socialist to sleep in your office, @Ocasio2018, the capitalists do it too nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/po…
