Feature flags have become a core staple of the development lifecycle. Most commonly associated with frontend usage, feature flags enable progressive delivery of new capabilities and simplified rollbacks.

This allows front-end developers to deploy with more confidence, but what about the rest of the stack?

Backend development creates critical plumbing for modern applications. Changes to these structures or migrations to different technologies can have cascading effects, both positive and negative, for front-end services that rely on these backend structures. As a result, backend changes are met with some trepidation and skepticism, after all, if it isn't broken why fix it?

Instead, organizations should look to expand feature flags and feature management solutions beyond the front end.

In this talk, we'll discuss how LaunchDarkly can be used to handle both frontend and backend changes and show a quick demo of the platform in action. We'll cover topics like using progressive rollouts for migrating backend services, the benefits of implementing prerequisite rules for feature flags, and how you can use experimentation data to optimize your releases.

This session is presented by LaunchDarkly.