Dynatrace Joins Forces With Technology Leaders to Launch OpenFeature, the New Standard for Feature Flagging and Management Solutions
May 19 2022 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Empowers teams to select their feature flagging
and management solution of choice and automate this functionality
at massive scale
Software intelligence company Dynatrace announced today that it,
along with a consortium of other technology leaders, has submitted
OpenFeature to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) for
consideration as a Sandbox project. The consortium includes
Dynatrace, LaunchDarkly, GitLab Inc., Split, Flagsmith, and
CloudBees.
Feature flagging and management solutions enable DevOps and SRE
teams to turn application functionality on and off at runtime
without deploying new code. This simplifies and accelerates the
delivery of personalized experiences, A/B testing, and the
mitigation of potential issues. This approach is essential for
modern continuous delivery practices. However, individual teams
within organizations often use a variety of feature flagging and
management solutions, each with a unique, proprietary approach.
This results in significant integration work and vendor
lock-in.
OpenFeature will address these challenges by enabling teams to
use any feature flagging or management solution that supports this
standard without additional integration or re-architecting. In
addition, by making it easier to integrate feature flagging and
management into the DevOps toolchain, OpenFeature will allow
Dynatrace customers to seamlessly extend answers and intelligent
automation to feature-flag enabled applications at massive
scale.
The need for a standard that simplifies approaches to feature
flagging and management is underscored by companies in the
consortium, as well as industry analysts:
“Feature flagging and management give development teams greater
agility and confidence as they identify the most impactful features
within their applications. Establishing this OpenFeature standard
will allow teams to adopt the best solution more easily, without
introducing new integration requirements. This creates a more
frictionless user experience for DevOps and SRE teams and allows
them to focus on delivering better software, faster.” — Daniel
O'Brien, Ecosystem Engineer, LaunchDarkly
“Developers often experience friction resulting from managing a
wide range of feature flagging and management tools. When teams are
measured by release velocity and quality, and the automation of
manual tasks, removing this friction is essential. OpenFeature
enables a frictionless experience, which in turn enhances
efficiency and the ability to iterate, aligning with two of
GitLab’s core values.” — Brendan O’Leary, Staff Developer
Evangelist, GitLab Inc.
“Currently, the extensive variety of approaches makes it
difficult to configure and integrate feature flagging into a
broader development toolchain and delivery pipeline. OpenFeature
enables cloud-native teams to optimize the release of new features
and embrace progressive delivery, along with other modern SRE and
DevOps practices. At Dynatrace, we will natively embed this
information into our Davis AIOps engine to help teams understand
the impact of features on performance, resilience, and digital
experience. By working with a consortium of industry leaders to
create this new open standard, we are taking a big step to reduce
complexity and free more time for innovators to deliver new and
amazing digital experiences for their customers.” — Alois
Reitbauer, CPO of Cloud Automation at Dynatrace
"Feature flagging is increasingly a strategic decision for
technology organizations. Standards and open source drive
innovation by commoditizing integration between platforms, enabling
lower risk adoption and innovation. OpenFeature is set to have a
significant impact on the landscape for software delivery tools and
patterns, underpinning new cases such as Progressive Delivery." —
James Governor, principal analyst at RedMonk
This announcement builds on Dynatrace’s existing leadership in
open source initiatives, including Keptn, W3C trace-context, and
OpenTelemetry, which enable organizations to more effectively drive
large-scale automation.
Visit the Dynatrace blog for more details on OpenFeature.
About Dynatrace
Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) exists to make the world’s software work
perfectly. Our unified software intelligence platform combines
broad and deep observability and continuous runtime application
security with the most advanced AIOps to provide answers and
intelligent automation from data at enormous scale. This enables
innovators to modernize and automate cloud operations, deliver
software faster and more securely, and ensure flawless digital
experiences. That is why the world’s largest organizations trust
the Dynatrace® platform to accelerate digital transformation.
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