Use Feature Flags to Avoid Downtime During Migrations

Today's software industry moves pretty fast. Not a day goes by without a new service, instance type or database entering the world. Sometimes, you need to migrate your workload to one of these new things to keep up. Unfortunately, thanks to the internet, there's an expectation that everything is available 24/7. How do you keep up without taking downtime to migrate your workloads? Feature flags.

In this talk, we'll discuss how LaunchDarkly migrated its event ingestion infrastructure to a more durable architecture using feature flags without downtime or dataloss.