[HN Gopher] OpenFeature: Standardizing Feature Flagging
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       OpenFeature: Standardizing Feature Flagging
        
       Author : alexzeitler
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2024-07-09 20:49 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | janosdebugs wrote:
       | After reading the specs, this sounds like an awful lot of
       | complexity for something that should be simple and low cost. The
       | spec also seems to be very loosely defined, more like a
       | recommendation than a spec. This means you'll likely have to
       | integrate a library and that library will be the authoritative
       | source of truth as far as the expected behavior is concerned.
        
         | scarlson wrote:
         | That's the nature of having existing players with significant
         | market share but no standardized spec. OTel was/is in the same
         | boat where in order to be a successful project, first you have
         | to integrate with the products orgs are already using.
        
       | salil999 wrote:
       | I'm confused as to why this needs to be standardized? OTel makes
       | sense because multiple applications can consume metrics and logs.
       | Feature flags are typically contained within a company and they
       | typically don't need to be transferred across to other places.
        
         | antonyt wrote:
         | OTel made sense because there were multiple observability
         | vendors eager to lock you in with proprietary formats and SDKs.
         | The motivation behind OTel is to instrument once and ship
         | anywhere, whether your vendor is Datadog, Splunk, Sentry, or
         | whatever.
         | 
         | This seems to be the same thing for feature flags, because
         | these days people are farming FF management out to vendors like
         | LaunchDarkly.
        
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