Honorable 🫡
Honorable mentions: @getunleash (#14, AIQ 5); @reflagcom (#13, AIQ 5).
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Hugs to the WorkOS team 🤗. Feature flags is serious business
This afternoon WorkOS experienced a 23-minute outage affecting authentication and other API requests.
A failover of the cache used for feature flag evaluation left app connections stalled, and requests waiting on flag checks held database connections open, causing queues to build and other requests to fail.
Many of you using WorkOS-powered products experienced failures, including failed sign-ins and long delays. I'm sorry for the disruption this caused. We're taking this event seriously and have already fixed the root cause, with work underway on additional layers of protection.
We will publish a full RCA next week explaining in detail what failed, why recovery was not automatic (should have been ~seconds), and what we're changing to prevent this issue from happening again.
Changelog: Feature opt-in
You can now let users opt into beta or experimental features directly from your product!
reflag.com/changelog/feature…
Changelog: Auto-join improvements
You can now add as many auto-join domains as you like, and auto-join no longer requires signing in with Google.
reflag.com/changelog/auto-jo…
Apparently @HypertuneHQ is shutting down in less than a month (didn’t announce on X for some reason). Sad! 😔 folks had some innovative ideas.
At @reflagcom we’re working on tooling to assist you in migrating. Get in touch if we can help!
We gave the service resiliency docs a refresher. You can run Reflag flags without worrying about Reflag downtime:
docs.reflag.com/product-hand…
Changelog: Live flag updates
Flag changes are now streamed live to your application making roll out and roll back instantaneous.
See the blog post for details on how it works: reflag.com/changelog/client-…
Ouch, sorry for all the Statsig customers affected by this.
To make the transition easier, we’re now 50% off the first year for any transitioning Statsig customers 😇
OpenAI sells the Statsig product and customers to Amplitude - but keeps the Statsig team?
amplitude.com/blog/amplitude…
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Changelog: Live flag updates, downtime protection and a new testing API in the Node SDK
reflag.com/changelog/live-fl…
Through the ✨AI hype✨, you gotta block out the noise and keep shipping.
The Reflag team did, and here's the summary of everything we shipped in Feb/March:
Management SDK (beta): toggle flags on/off for users and companies from your backend programatically
reflag.com/changelog/managem…
and finally, the brief story of how we replaced Clickhouse with good old Postgres for certain workloads and saw drastic speedups
reflag.com/blog/we-replaced-…
Changelog: "Changes" display mode: Shows targeting changes as opposed to the full snapshot in the flag timeline
reflag.com/changelog/targeti…




