Aha! That makes so much sense now, thanks…
I got a bit fixated on the flags/gates and somehow blind-spotted Actors. Nice. 
aseigo
tompave
Hello,
I’ve released new versions of this library and its GUI extension:
I’ve added a new PubSub adapter to support cache-busting notifications over distributed Erlang, to be used as an alternative to the Redis PubSub adapter.
The new adapter uses Phoenix.PubSub and its high level API, so it doesn’t really care about what’s used under the hood as transport. It works out of the box with pg2 when running in a cluster of nodes.
I’ve also refactored the internals to make them more modular. Specifically, now it would be really easy to add other persistence adapters, as all they need to do is to reimplement the API of the Redis module. Redis is still the default store, but I’m thinking of adding an Ecto adapter (CC @aseigo).
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aseigo
tompave
tompave
Hello,
I’ve added an Ecto persistence adapter and released version 0.9.0 of this package.
Now that that both Ecto persistence and Phoenix PubSub (PG2) have first class support, this library can be used in Phoenix applications without the extra Redix dependency (although Redis and Redix are awesome).
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tompave
Hi there,
I’ve released version 1.0.0 of this package and updated the web-UI plugin to support the new features.
This is a significant release because it adds two new kinds of toggles that I’m particularly happy about:
- percentage of time gates
- percentage of actors gates
They basically do what it says on the tin, and more details can be found on github.
The percentage of actors gate is a great starting block to build an AB testing harness, because it allows to enable a feature for a fixed subset of users with deterministic, consistent and repeatable results. In a web application, if used together with an analytics system to track conversion success rates, it can be used to run experiments and observe the effects on user behaviour.
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