Welcome, bold adventurer! Are you ready to work with me to explore the multiple paths of deployment, activation, and feature flags? The audience drives the talk by choosing different deployment and activation options in real time and we’ll see how the story ends.

We never change the amount of work or technical debt, we just shift it, and with it, we change how it emerges and appears. Our systems don’t have to be perfect to be operational - planes, networks, and elite athletes all function at extremely high levels even though they are not operating at 100%. The audience will leave with some concrete ideas about how to add resiliency to their system by learning to trust but mitigate their reliance on perfect performance of their underlying tools.

Lots of us aren’t developing tidy, discrete features that are easy to manage. How do you plan to move from a tangle of interconnected features to something that you can test and deploy each part of? How do you manage the combinatorial complexity of individual feature testing? Join us for an overview on the conceptual basis of designing for feature management.