#feature-flagging + #tools

Public notes from activescott tagged with both #feature-flagging and #tools

Thursday, August 6, 2026

flagd is a feature flag evaluation engine. Think of it as a ready-made, open source, OpenFeature-compliant feature flag backend system.

With flagd, you can:

  • modify flags in real-time
  • define flags of various types (boolean, string, number, JSON)
  • use context-sensitive rules to target specific users or user traits
  • perform pseudorandom assignments for experimentation
  • perform progressive roll-outs of new features
  • aggregate flag definitions from multiple sources
  • expose aggregated flags as a gRPC stream to be used by in-process providers
  • expose OFREP service for configured flags

It doesn't include a UI, management console or a persistence layer. It's configurable entirely via a POSIX-style CLI. Thanks to its minimalism, it's extremely flexible; you can leverage flagd as a sidecar alongside your application, an engine running in your application process, or as a central service evaluating thousands of flags per second.