Monthly Archives: August 2014

Feature Toggles (Feature Switches or Feature Flags) vs Feature Branches

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This article is part of the Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment series.

Feature Branches

If you are using branches, you are not doing Continuous Integration/Deployment/Delivery!

You might have great Code Coverage with unit tests, you might be doing TDD, you might have functional and integrations tests written in BDD format and you might run all of them on every commit to the repository. However, if you are having branches, integration is delayed until they are merged and that means that there is no continuous integration.
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REST API with JSON

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What is REST API?

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It relies on a stateless, client-server, cacheable communications. In most cases it is used with the HTTP protocol.

RESTful applications use HTTP requests to POST (create), PUT (create and/or update), GET (e.g., make queries), and DELETE data. REST uses HTTP for all four CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations.
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