Dynamic Configuration in Software Development

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This chapter explores the challenges and evolution of managing application configurations, particularly in large-scale companies like Uber. It emphasizes the significance of dynamic configuration over traditional feature flagging and discusses its integration into the software development lifecycle to enhance scalability and usability. The conversation also highlights the development journey of the Lekko product, addressing its architectural evolution and deployment strategies while ensuring performance and stability.

Feature flagging tools have grown in popularity as a way to decouple releases and deployment, but they can introduce their own long-term problems and tech debt.

Lekko is a startup democratizing the practice of dynamic configuration. Their motivating idea is to empower engineers to focus on software releases, and business teams and other stakeholders to shape deployment.

Konrad Niemiec is the Founder and CEO at Lekko. He previously worked at Uber where an internal tool called Flipr enabled dynamic configuration management, and which today serves as a key design inspiration for Lekko. Konrad joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about his company and the technology they’re developing.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by 10K Media.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.