From 398e35ede5352e775e226d5f7a0fb6272f2744f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Todd Baert Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:18:00 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] first pass at intro Signed-off-by: Todd Baert --- web-docs/intro.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/web-docs/intro.md b/web-docs/intro.md index e69de29bb..d37128304 100644 --- a/web-docs/intro.md +++ b/web-docs/intro.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# What is flagd? + +_flagd_ is a _feature flag evaluation engine_. +You can think of it as the "guts" of a full-featured flag management solution. +It allows you to dynamically evaluate feature flags. + +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 + +It doesn't include a UI, management console or a persistence layer. +It's configurable entirely via a POSIX-style CLI. +Thanks to it's minimalism, it's _extremely flexible_; you can run flagd as a sidecar alongside your application, or as a central service evaluating thousands of flags per second.