Split Feature Flags and Jira Tasks Integration: How Pac-Man taught me to love progressive delivery
This talk was originally presented at Atlassian Open DevOps Team Talks 2021 at https://events.atlassian.com/teamtalk...
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Progressive delivery does away with release nights, unlocking shorter lead times while increasing safety. The key? Decoupling deploy from release. Join this talk for a Pac-Man demo with Jira and Split.
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0:00 Intro
0:28 Setting the context. Why is the way you release so important?
1:40 How your day-to-day can be different
2:44 Defining progressive delivery
4:11 Live demo with PacMan, Jira, and Split
5:32 Creating a Split feature flag from within a Jira task
6:36 Adding a targeting rule in Split so dev can test in production
8:24 Planning our rollout: associating an existing Split feature flag with a Jira task
9:35 Viewing Jira tasks from the Split side under Additional settings
9:55 Changing targeting rule to start rollout using attribute-based targeting
11:00 Expose new feature to 10% of the population by editing the Default rule in Split
12:06 Understanding the evaluation order on the Targeting rules screen
12:45 Uh oh! Trouble! Let's use the Kill button. Two clicks from Jira to Split
13:20 Using Restore to get right back to pre-incident state
14:12 Demo recap: what did we DO by using Split for progressive delivery?
14:51 What did we NOT do, thanks to progressive delivery?
15:33 Unlocking safety and pride of authorship with DATA tied to feature flags
17:10 How can we learn EARLY ON that something isn't right?
17:38 Using a randomized trial to identify impact and filter out noise
18:07 Detecting differences, throwing an alert if needed
19:00 Your new day-to-day with data-informed progressive delivery
19:06 Psychological safety unlocked: Flow, Test In Prod, Kill Switch
19:56 Pride of authorship unlocked: No feature factory treadmills
21:00 Taking bigger risks, safely unlocked: Test to Learn, Existing vs New, Dynamic Config
24:00 What "no release nights" looks like
24:46 Q&A and short links to get more info, free accounts, etc...
[Related Links]
Coding Practice + Free Accts → https://bit.ly/split4devs
More on Progressive Delivery → https://bit.ly/pd-thoughts
Split Explainer Video (2 min) → https://bit.ly/what-is-split
Blog post mentioned during Q&A: https://www.split.io/blog/manage-feat...
Related webinar: https://www.split.io/resources/webina...
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