Tom Hombergs

Tom Hombergs

As a professional software engineer, consultant, architect, general problem solver, I've been practicing the software craft for more than fifteen years and I'm still learning something new every day. I love sharing the things I learned, so you (and future me) can get a head start. That's why I founded reflectoring.io.

Articles by Tom Hombergs

Feature Flags Best Practices

Feature flags, in their simplest form, are just if conditions in your code that check if a certain feature is enabled or not.

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9 Practices to Support Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment is the state-of-the-art way to ship software these days. Often, however, it’s not possible to practice continuous deployment because the context doesn’t allow it (yet).

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Rollout Strategies with Feature Flags

Rolling out new features is one of the most satisfying parts of our job. Finally, users will see the new feature we’ve worked on so hard!

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Testing Feature Flags

Putting your code behind a feature flag means that you can deploy unfinished changes. As long as the feature flag is disabled, the changes are not having an effect.

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Testing Time-Based Features with Feature Flags

Time-based features in a software application are a pain to test. To test such a feature, you can (and should) write unit tests, of course.

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Feature Flags: Make or Buy?

According to Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) group, software delivery performance influences organizational performance in general. That means if you’re good at delivering software, you’re good at business.

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