Feature Flags for Microservices? Why Your Microservices Need Feature Toggles (opens in new tab)

Microservices is the practice of breaking up a huge, monolithic release where all components are tested and released as a whole, into many discrete services that can go on independent release schedules. The benefits of microservices were popularized by Martin Fowler, and put into practice by Amazon and Netflix. However, with microservices, releases become more complicated, by n-factorial. Instead of one monolith that can tested as a whole, if there are even as few as nine different services, ...