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0 pointsradicality1y ago0 comments

Maybe I’m not fully understanding what this product is doing. For something like configs/feature flags, it imo should be dynamic.

I was thinking that git (in a separate repo from main code) would be used to store the changes to configs, but then you would still need a system that tails the git changes and distributes them to clients.

That’s the way config serving was done at Facebook - a mercurial repo with all configs and tooling to edit configs which creates mercurial commits. Then, the mercurial repo is continuously tailed and values are saved to ZooKeeper, and then client libraries read config data from zookeeper / subscribe to updates / etc.

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GeorgeMac1y ago

This is actually how it works.

Flipt is live tailing the repository and serving this dynamically to the clients.

The repo with flag configuration can be solely for flags, or alongside other infra configuration on in more of a monorepo. You decide how you want it setup.

Obviously if it is alongside code, you may to contend with CI in order to validate a change. But with the rules in CI or other monorepo tooling, what runs and when can adjust this behavior to improve time for configuration to become live.

Once a configuration change is integrated into a target branch in the repo, then it becomes readable for Flipt and servable once fetched.

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