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by guilhermecgs 647 days ago
I am a user. What i would like is something very "simple", no server

Use the same SDK and ping github rest api to get the values of the the flag.

I know, this is very weird... But i cant deny it would be helpful for very small projects
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bullcitydev 646 days ago
Thats a cool idea! Feel free to put something in our community on Discourse (https://community.flipt.io/c/flipt-cloud/6) or Discord (https://www.flipt.io/discord) so we can talk through how this could work.

We've been thinking a lot recently about supporting 'edge' k/v stores like vercel/cloudflare and having the client side evaluation SDKs pull from there, which wouldn't require a server at all. This seems very similar just with using GitHub. We could even use GitHub Container Registry as the store as its OCI compliant.

Thank you for using Flipt btw!!

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guilhermecgs 645 days ago
cool. Looking forward for this.

Also S3 (+ azure and GCP) would be a good 'edge' k/v store.

Someone could start with Github in a simple project, migrate to S3 to handle more requests and then migrate later to a full server solution... All of this keeping the same client codebase

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GeorgeMac 644 days ago
Love this, and definitely where we're going.

We already support S3, Azure and GCS, as well as OCI (any compatible registry) as a source in the open-source server-side evaluator. So if you pop a deploy step to any of these sources from your Git repo, you can use them via the Flipt server process as a source of truth in production. Our server-side and client-side SDKs can source from Flipt in these scenarios.

But, we are keen to both explore skipping the Flipt server middle-man for client-SDKs, as well as make the publish step to these locations a simple configuration process in our UI. To avoid having to write things like GH actions to achieve the end to end result.

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