Course Overview: What You’ll Learn in AI Feature Flags and Progressive Delivery
Welcome to AI Feature Flags and Progressive Delivery
Ship risky code safely. Feature flags, canary rollouts, kill switches, and AI-powered anomaly detection across your release pipeline.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this short, focused course you will have concrete, repeatable workflows that you can use on the very next project.
- The four flag types (release, experiment, ops, permission) and how to tell them apart.
- When to use LaunchDarkly vs. Unleash vs. OpenFeature vs. a Postgres table.
- Canary and ring deployment patterns with automated health gates.
- AI-assisted cohort selection and anomaly-driven auto-rollback.
- Experiment design that avoids peeking, underpowering, and metric fishing.
- Ops kill switches that stop bleeding during incidents.
- An AI-assisted flag-cleanup workflow that keeps your codebase sane over time.
Full Course Breakdown
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Structuring Your Flagging System: Libraries, SDKs, and Self-Hosting
Pick the right flag infrastructure. LaunchDarkly vs. Unleash vs. OpenFeature vs. a table in Postgres.
Progressive Rollouts: 1% to 100% Without the 2am Rollback
Canary, ring deployment, and blue/green rollouts. When each is right, and how to automate the ramp.
AI-Assisted Flag Targeting: Context-Aware Rollouts
Use AI to pick the right cohorts to roll out to first. Risk scoring, cohort generation, and auto-rollback triggers.
Experimentation: Flags, A/B Tests, and Statistical Honesty
Where feature flags end and experimentation begins. Avoiding the classic stats mistakes that kill rollouts.
Kill Switches and Incident Response
Ops flags that save you during incidents. What to gate, who can flip, and how to not make the outage worse.
Flag Lifecycle and Technical Debt: Cleaning Up Without Outages
Flags accumulate. Here is the AI-assisted workflow for detecting, deprecating, and removing dead flags safely.
Who This Course Is For
- Backend and platform engineers shipping risky changes weekly.
- SREs and DevOps engineers tired of midnight rollbacks.
- Tech leads whose "deploy days" are still scary.
- Founders at companies with three users on a free tier and three users on a 6-figure contract.
What Makes This Course Different
- Vendor-neutral: Principles first, tools second. Works whether you use LaunchDarkly, Unleash, or a home-grown system.
- Evergreen: The four flag types and the ring-deployment model will outlast any specific tool.
- Hands-on: Every lesson ends with an audit or exercise you do against your real codebase.
- Safety-obsessed: Includes the "do not ship this on Friday" patterns and kill-switch runbooks that save incidents.
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7 lessons of practical, AI-assisted, hands-on content. Lifetime access. No fluff.