go-flagz VS flagsmith

This is a good start. Long road ahead on this. Some comments on the design:

1. If there were more similarities to how Prometheus defines flags I think that would be better. Adding metadata like help text and other things that prom has would be nice.

2. Having some method to identify what flags a binary thinks are set (and more specifically the set to non-default values) from a process running outside of the binary is extremely helpful. [0]

3. Defining schemes for flag rollouts. They should be able to be gradual, canary + gradual, global.

4. Some integration with common web/rpc frameworks that would allow you apply flags to a user population ("only the devs from our team should see this feature") is very helpful as well.

[0] - https://github.com/mwitkow/go-flagz

Considering all these points, the team at Flagsmith has developed a feature flag management platform Flagsmith and made it open source. The core functionality is open and you can check out the GitHub repository here. I have utilized and authored several blogs discussing their excellent offerings and strategies.

It’s also open source! Check out the repo here and don't forget to give it a star to show your support and join their amazing community to get technical support.

In this guide, we've chosen Flagsmith as our feature flagging solution. Flagsmith is an open-source platform that offers a user-friendly interface for managing feature flags, A/B testing, and segment overrides. You can control feature behaviour without modifying code, making it a powerful tool for managing complex projects with multiple feature variations.

Looks good. My friend launched Flagsmith a few years back too -https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith. I have used it on a few of my own projects and it’s been great/easy to integrate

Is Flagsmith not the de-facto OSS LaunchDarkly?

What are the differences to Flagr, GrowthBook or Flagsmith?

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I believe the idea is that you run feature flag management as a separate service. It's not meant for desktop software but rather as a component of a microservices architecture. This is not uncommon - I know at least one of the FAANGs has something like this internally.

Flagsmith [1] (formerly Bullet Train) is another open source feature-flags-as-a-service software, and they have their own SaaS offering now.

1. https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith