In my two decades of experience leading DevOps, Digital, and Agile transformations, I’ve observed that the path to modernisation is rarely a straight line. Organisations, particularly those in data-sensitive sectors, like banking, government, and healthcare, often find themselves at a crossroads. They need to innovate faster while maintaining rigorous security and reliability. This tension between speed and safety has traditionally forced companies to choose one over the other. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Flagsmith’s eBook on feature flags at enterprise scale. I wrote the introduction.
The argument in it: feature flags separate deployment from release, and that separation is what makes deployment frequency, one of the four DORA metrics, movable at all. Without it, a team can only deploy as often as it dares to release. With it, small changes go out several times a day and the blast radius of each one stays small.
Banking software must be secure, reliable, and trustworthy. But many banks still rely on traditional development methods that are slow, risky, and inefficient. In this video, I explore three modern software development practices that are fundamentally changing how banks build and deliver software: continuous deployment, test-driven development, and feature flags.
By Anna Redbond and Romano Roth on August 2, 2023
A lot of banks are moving to modern software development despite the traditional industry hurdles like compliance, regulations, and legacy architecture. The shared goal: becoming more adaptable to meet customers’ changing demands.
Feature toggles are one of those concepts that sound simple on the surface but unlock enormous power in practice. In this DevOps Meetup Zurich session, I team up with Ben Rometsch, founder of Flagsmith, to explain the what, why, and how of feature toggles. We cover the foundational concepts of CI/CD that make feature toggles necessary, the difference between deployment and release, and how modern feature flagging platforms enable progressive rollouts, user segmentation, and A/B testing.
