Mendel equivalent?

[InCogNiTo124]

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[InCogNiTo124]

1. launchdarkly
2. posthog
3. growthbook

[masonk]

openfeature.dev

[dbarnett]

So launchdarkly/posthog/growthbook/configcat are commercial platforms, and openfeature.dev is a higher-level standard (with integrations for all those platforms). Do we just send a PR adding those?

One interesting thing about Mendel is it can be explicitly versioned with config pushes (and canary analysis) in a way I'm not sure any of those support. Is that a factor worth mentioning?

[masonk]

I have researched this myself on behalf of my new job, and while nothing is quite exactly mendel, I think the best bet in the non-google ecosphere is an implementation of openfeature.dev. As you mention, openfeature.dev is just a standard, and there are many implementations adopting the standard.

We're using flagd as the implementation, which is the most plain-jane option with few bells and whistles, but importantly, no SaSS business model so we're not expecting to get nagged into upgrading to a paid service tier.

The question you ask about explicit versioning is something that is not defined by the openfeature.dev standard AFAIK. Different "flag providers" may have their own methods of versioning.

The best brass-tacks docs for this ecosphere are a bit hidden, it's around here: https://github.com/open-feature/open-feature-operator/blob/main/docs/feature_flag.md