Leveraging Feature Toggles for your Microservices

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Demonstrates running feature toggles across microservices using FF4j with a spring-boot app, exposing a web UI to flip features at runtime and push changes to all instances. Shows stores beyond in-memory (database, Cassandra, Consul) and integration with service discovery so toggles propagate to clusters. Covers configuration management, audit logs and monitoring of who used which flag, and uses toggles for canary releases and gradual rollouts rather than heavy blue/green deployments.

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1. 0:00Feature toggles intro
2. 3:12Feature toggles prevent debt
3. 7:20Distributed architecture challenges
4. 10:38Consul for service discovery
5. 13:57Implementing toggles with Fargo
6. 16:18Monitoring feature toggles
7. 18:30Conclusion

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