OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging

Posted by gjvc 10/25/2024

OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging(github.com)

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taveras 10/25/2024|

As someone who’s been thinking about feature toggles and continuous delivery often lately, OpenFeature has been helpful.

Kudos to the team!

v3ss0n 10/25/2024||

Have they benchmarked against similar sized GGUF quants? How is it compared to them?

sgammon 10/25/2024||

java version embeds lombok symbols lol

abrahms 10/25/2024|

Forgive my ignorance, but what should it be doing instead?

martypitt 10/25/2024||

Lombok is a very divisive framework in Java, with strong opinions on both sides.

Given that, it's a bold choice to include Lombok in a library that other developers will pull into their stack - it's likely to make this a non-starter from those in the 'no' camp.

As Lombok is just compiler sugar, when building an SDK for other developers, it's probably less alienating to just write the boilerplate that Lombok saves you from.

ahtihn 10/25/2024||

Lombok is a compile-time dependency. Consumers of a library using lombok don't need to depend on lombok, so I don't see why it would matter?

sgammon 10/26/2024||

The symbols remain in the final library, necessitating either class exclusions within the scope of a JAR you don't control (which is a terrible idea) or the addition of a dependency which is irrelevant, inert, and has no place in your codebase.

It is embarrassing for a library to ship ABI-visible symbols from Lombok.

sabedevops 10/25/2024||

Where is the tldr? Anyone familiar…what does this do and why do we care about it being standards based?

MeteorMarc 10/25/2024||

https://openfeature.dev/docs/reference/intro/

taveras 10/25/2024|||

This is a “standard” SDK for feature flags, allowing you to avoid vendor lock-in.

i.e., using feature flag SaaS ABC but want to try out XYZ? if you’re using ABC’s own DDK, refactor your codebase.

I appreciate that you can use the OpenFeature SDK with environment variables, and move into a SaaS (or custom) solution when you’re ready.

gjvc 10/25/2024||

the laziness on this site never ceases to amaze

gjvc 10/25/2024||

and the use of "we" to somehow give the impression that this person speaks for everyone

MeteorMarc 10/25/2024|

Martin Fowler about feature flags: https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

hobofan 10/25/2024|

No, that is Pete Hudgson on martinfowler.com. Most articles on martinfowler.com haven't been written by Martin Fowler himself in years. It's best thought of as a publishing venue for Thoughtworks.

jonathannorris 10/25/2024||

Pete is a great guy, also on the OpenFeature governance board :)