> The client provider requires an API token to fetch flag values. This token is not scoped to a single app, so anyone with the token can evaluate flags across all apps in your account. Use the client provider with caution in public-facing applications.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/sdk/client-provid...

Can anyone clarify... why the client SDK, designed to be deployed to browsers, requires caution? Does this mean that any client could send requests with a new targetingKey and observe other users' flags?

While flags probably shouldn't be critical information, this seems like an interesting design choice.

And context can be extremely tailored to your niche: specific inventory, from a specific supplier, for a specific user of a specific B2B client of a specific business model subtype, who should or shouldn’t see certain features on that specific inventory at certain times.

When you can write your own logic, and just run this in a tight loop as easily and performantly as you can use a constant, it makes your business incredibly agile. Think some text might change for some customers? Just write the code to make it configurable, and you get tests and flags for free.

Sadly, that zero-hop setup requires a sophisticated client execution engine, which it doesn’t appear Cloudflare has implemented here. Makes sense for their memory constrained workers, less sense for traditional infrastructure.

Statsig has an approach here that I quite like:

> To be able to do this, Server SDKs hold the entire ruleset of your project in memory - a representation of each gate or experiment in JSON. On client SDKs, we evaluate all of the gates/experiments when you call initialize - on our servers.

https://docs.statsig.com/sdks/how-evaluation-works

You can also roll your own - just sync your rulesets to a few data structures every few seconds in a background thread and atomically swap the reference to them. Then you just need a CRUD interface over the applicability ruleset dimensions.

Just be careful to have governance on who can play with which would-be constants. Great power and great responsibility and all that!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/enterprise-grade-features-for-al...

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I don’t believe a single enterprise only feature has made its way to lower tier (paid) account yet.

I’m most interested in:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/content...

We used Statsig at Function. It started out as 2 of us using it on one product and within 12 months, large amounts of our product copy and rollouts were driven off of it.

Statsig has client side evals so you can write rules and rollouts based on internal concepts without Statsig’s servers processing a piece of user data. Hoping Cloudflare can build a sophisticated product here so I don’t have use another product in the future!

- anyone have comments/comparisons about launchdarkly vs posthog vs statsig (is it still alive after openai?) vs _____ vs cloudflare flagship?

like a "beginner/intermediate/advanced" progression of what to look out for/what you will want when it comes to feature flags would be highly helpful for me and many others here

I feel strong inclination too but its also way too early before any real users can prove PMF. I've been using Google stuff but wonder if Flagship and perhaps other Cloudflare offerings can help.

The other side is that again it feels too early for this stuff and I just want to ship something quickly.

The work ivnvolved

and im sure they can drive down the cost , compared to say launchdarkly

Can't even ship with app-scoped tokens...

  Q.Data.variant()

And on the back end, you'd use it like this:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/classes/...

Essentially, this can support a huge number of "variants" and within each variant you can have N equal segments. That will help you do A/B testing and flipping features on or off.