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OpenFeature Contributor Spotlight: André Silva

· 2 min read
Andrew MacLean
Developer Relations at DevCycle

Welcome to our inaugural OpenFeature Contributor Spotlight, where we highlight and celebrate standout contributors who have made a significant impact on the OpenFeature project. For this edition, we’re excited to introduce André Silva, a dedicated developer who has been instrumental in advancing our .NET library and telemetry conventions.

OpenFeature .NET SDK 2.0 Release

· 4 min read
Todd Baert
Software Engineer at Dynatrace, OpenFeature maintainer

Today we're announcing the release of the OpenFeature SDK for .NET, v2.0! This release contains several ergonomic improvements to the SDK, which .NET developers will appreciate. It also includes some performance optimizations brought to you by the latest .NET primitives.

OpenFeature Multi-Provider Release

· 9 min read
Emma Willis
Software Developer at DevCycle

We are excited to announce the release of the OpenFeature “Multi-Provider” for JavaScript and NodeJS. This new provider allows developers to access multiple OpenFeature providers through a unified interface, with customizable strategies that reconcile inconsistencies between providers. The Multi-Provider supports use cases including provider migrations and long-term support for multiple feature flag sources. It is currently available for the Javascript OpenFeature SDKs @openfeature/server-sdk and @openfeature/web-sdk.

Feature Observability Semantic Conventions

· 3 min read
Daniel Dyla
Senior Open Source Architect

As comic book aficionados say, with great power comes great responsibility, or great complexity as the case may be. Feature flags provide incredible value, and now with OpenFeature they're more accessible than ever, but the complexity they introduce should not be ignored. As your application grows, it becomes more and more difficult to understand how feature flag evaluations and changes impact your users and their experience with your application. The OpenTelemetry feature observability semantic convention special interest group (SIG) aims to combat this problem by defining a consistent set of rules and definitions for feature telemetry data. Keep reading to learn more about this effort and how you can be involved!

OpenFeature at KubeCon EU '24

· 3 min read
Todd Baert
Software Engineer at Dynatrace, OpenFeature maintainer

It's that time again, KubeCon EU!

We have a lot going on this week, and we'd love to meet you! Join a session, get your hands dirty at the Contribfest, and come see us at the booth! See below for details and links.

Reconciling with State: Simplifications and Improvements to Better Support Framework-Specific SDKs

· 5 min read
Todd Baert
Software Engineer at Dynatrace, OpenFeature maintainer

Recent Specification Changes 🗒

There's no shortage of frameworks available when it comes to the development of enterprise software. Whether it's the "frontend" or "backend", developers are quick to avail things like React, Spring, Gin and Flask to avoid boilerplate code and structure their applications in a familiar way. Such frameworks also offer convenient abstractions that ease the employment of common patterns, think dependency injection as in Angular or Spring, or MVC as in Django or ASP.NET MVC. Many also provide extensibility features so that new functionality can be implemented seamlessly and idiomatically.

OpenFeature, we've been working on enhancing our specification and base SDKs to support the creation of such framework-level SDKs in order to bring vendor neutral feature flags to them. Specifically with respect to front end frameworks such as React, we've found that it was critical to refine the semantics of our events API and context-reconciliation concepts. This post discusses some of our improvements.

OpenFeature December 2023 Update: We're Incubating & more!

· 4 min read
Stacey Potter
Program Manager, Open Source Community at Dynatrace

December 2023 Update

Hello OpenFeature Community 👋

Happy holidays and a very happy new year in the coming weeks! There’s a lot happening as we wind down the year, so keep reading! As always, we thank you for your continued support and contributions and look forward to an exciting new year in 2024!