Backup Providers

A quick way to instantly toggle all connected systems from one provider to another in the case of downtime or degraded performance from a primary provider.

Reduce the impact of provider downtime by being able to instantly switch backend providers from one to the other and back again without re-deploying.
Instantly balance traffic to multiple providers if one is experiencing degraded performance to balance your reliance on any single provider.
Split traffic between multiple providers to mitigate the potential impact of one provider going offline and ensuring you aren't entirely reliant on your primary provider.
Reduce support requests by insulating your customers from downtime caused by a single external vendor.

:email_backup

Fully Disabled

All 300

Primary No Issues

Backup Standby

Inspect Flag State & Code Samples

100% to primary provider? @feature.off?
False
100% to backup provider? @feature.on?
False
Balance traffic across providers? @feature.percentage_of_time_value.positive? && @feature.percentage_of_time_value < 100
False
Route paying customers to backup provider? @feature.groups_value.include?('paid')
False

# Switch Entirely to Backup Provider

Flipper.enable(:email_backup) $ flipper enable email_backup

# Switch VIP's to Backup Provider

Flipper.enable_group(:email_backup, :paid) $ flipper enable email_backup --group paid

# Balance Providers

Flipper.enable_percentage_of_time(:email_backup, 50) $ flipper enable email_backup --percentage-of-time 50

Important: Behind the scenes, we've already registered and defined the :paid group in config/initializers/flipper.rb:

Flipper.register(:paid) do |actor, context|
  actor.respond_to?(:paid?) && actor.paid?
end