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World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage β€’ Jul 2, 2026 β€’ Session details

Fun with Flags: How OpenFeature Solves Your Feature Flag Headaches

Simon Schrottner

Tired of feature flag vendor lock-in and endless technical debt? Discover how OpenFeature's vendor-agnostic API standardizes your workflow and eliminates dead code without modifying your application.

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#1 about 3 min

Risks of mismanaging feature flags in production

Centralized feature flag management prevents costly deployment misconfigurations and trading losses.

#2 about 4 min

Decoupling deployments from releases with runtime toggles

Modifying application behavior during runtime reduces deployment risk and enables progressive rollouts.

#3 about 3 min

Categorizing feature flags by longevity and dynamism

Understanding the differences between release, operational, permission, and experiment toggles clarifies their lifecycle requirements.

#4 about 2 min

Progressing through the feature flag maturity model

Organizations evolve from simple environment variables to dynamic evaluations and fully operationalized ownership.

#5 about 3 min

Standardizing flag management with the OpenFeature specification

A vendor-agnostic and community-driven API eliminates migration pains across different feature flag platforms.

#6 about 5 min

Implementing the evaluation API across programming languages

Utilizing consistent singleton patterns and fallback values ensures applications remain resilient during evaluation failures.

#7 about 4 min

Preventing vendor lock-in using configurable abstraction providers

Plugging different feature flag management systems into an abstraction layer simplifies migrations and standardizes code.

#8 about 6 min

Driving dynamic evaluations with arbitrary execution context

Injecting runtime and user data into feature flags enables targeted rollouts and regional compliance enforcement.

#9 about 3 min

Ensuring deterministic outcomes during progressive percentage rollouts

Assigning stable targeting keys guarantees consistent user experiences across randomized cohort assignments.

#10 about 5 min

Detecting obsolete flags using evaluation lifecycle hooks

Integrating telemetry at specific evaluation stages generates usage data to safely deprecate stale code paths.

#11 about 6 min

Validating experiments and contributing to the community

Leveraging tracking APIs and events enables complex experiment validation while participating in open-source standards development.

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Leveraging feature flags for safe production release automation

Chris Riley Β· World Congress 2021

2:12 min

Managing feature flags and avoiding technical debt

Nachiket Apte Β· LIVE

1:25 min

Preventing continuous surprise with feature flags

Marcel Cremer Marcel Cremer Β· Europe 2026 Virtual

2:06 min

Utilizing feature flags for rapid incident mitigation

Dan Tao Dan Tao Β· World Congress 2024

3:08 min

Analyzing how outdated feature flags cause system failures

Reka Horvath Β· World Congress 2023

1:34 min

Managing and controlling agentic code at enterprise scale

Edith Harbaugh Edith Harbaugh +3 Β· World Congress 2026 Europe

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