Introducing Stormcrow: Dropbox's feature gating / population management system

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It's great to see companies building this category of products once they reach a certain scale where customer experience matters. Gatekeeper from Facebook, LiX from LinkedIn (where I am from), and now you guys. I really like the way Stormcrow taps into data on Hive to enable richer targeting. Any plans on tying Stormcrow to analytics?

Btw, I wrote a quick post based on this trend:

http://www.split.io/blog/dropboxs-stormcrow-and-the-new-era-...

Author here, happy to answer any questions about this post!

Hi, Tom. Great post!

1) How do you synchronize features between micro-services? Each service may have a different state of the feature set during a request.

2) When you flip the feature on or off, how is that reflected in the UI? Does the UI tell you when the feature propagated to all services?

Thanks!

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