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by lonelydriver77 810 days ago
Disclaimer: I work at Amplitude, where we offer a feature flagging and experimentation platform

Hey hahnbee, I echo a bunch of other folks sentiment that local evaluation mode is pretty important so you’re not constantly making network calls to figure out the state of your flags, that’s one of the biggest things.

The other thing I’d add is that it’s pretty important (esp as a homegrown system) to build user tracking into your flags so you know that for a given flag, which user saw which version at what time. This is so critical for debugging and issue resolution so you’re not left guessing (and doubly important for experiments where you want to run stats on different populations).

You probably will not be surprised to find out that we have this stuff built into our system, and that you can get started with our flags for free! So here’s my shameless plug to head over to Amplitude.com and check out our stuff