Agreed. Launch Darkly has some interesting Feature Flag SDKs that do local caching and other optimizations to reduce overhead. https://github.com/launchdarkly
By default, the SDKs use server-sent events to push feature flags to an in-memory store. If you need persistence + strong consistency, you can back the SDK with Redis as well.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders of LaunchDarkly.
o/t, was checking out your blog and saw that you launched Outlier; congrats! I was a big fan (and heavy user) of Flurry.. excited to see what comes of this.