In this episode of DevOps Quick Bites, Rob breaks down implementing Feature Flags as part of your Salesforce DevOps approach.
Learn how to use Custom Metadata, Custom Permissions, and Permission Sets to control feature rollouts dynamically across Apex, LWCs, Flows, and more. Perfect for dark launches, incremental rollouts, and selective releases—this is your guide to smarter feature management in Salesforce!
Learn more:
- Mitch Spano at Google discusses Feature Flags: https://youtu.be/j126Elp_S8E?t=2422
- A feature flag implementation from James Hou: https://github.com/tsalb/feature-flag-designs
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:38 What are Feature Flags?
01:22 Implementing feature flags in Salesforce
03:11 Using feature flags in your Salesforce implementation
03:18 Feature flags in Apex
03:31 Feature flags in Lightning Web Components (LWCs)
03:42 Feature flags in Salesforce flow
03:54 Feature flags in dynamic forms
04:32 Example use cases for feature flags
04:58 Closing summary
