If it's feature switching you're after, haven't tried it but <a href="https://github.com/cookpad/chanko">https://github.com/cookpad/chanko</a> looks interesting.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 September 2012 22:30, Tom Armitage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@infovore.org" target="_blank">tom@infovore.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Ed James (Alt) <<a href="mailto:ed.james.spam@gmail.com">ed.james.spam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> The Beta environment allows us to see application changes in a production<br>
> environment using live data. It means we don't always have to put new beta<br>
> features behind things like beta flags or introduce conditions into the<br>
> code. This is quite common practice as far as I know (Facebook do something<br>
> similar).<br>
<br>
</div>So: it sounds like staging is working for you pretty sensibly,<br>
especially with the data-snapshots being pushed into it. But it's this<br>
Beta environment that's causing the problems.<br>
<br>
I was wondering if you have any specific aversion to feature flagging?<br>
It feels like a much better solution here, given that Beta/Prod are<br>
treading on each others' toes a lot, and feature flags feel like a<br>
good fit here. I'd also note there are ways of implementing their<br>
integration that are less heavy on conditionals (if it's the idea of a<br>
ton of conditionals invading your code that's the thing you dislike).<br>
It also means you can slowly roll out beta features to some (but not<br>
all) users, if you'd like to test features in the wild.<br>
<br>
It wasn't clear from the above statement precisely why you weren't so<br>
keen on them, so thought I'd draw it out.<br>
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