Case Study: Cognite speeds up feature flag adoption with Unleash's Rust SDK

Cognite builds a Rust SDK in 2 days with Unleash

Cognite, a leader in industrial software, faced a challenge when one of its teams began rewriting a service into Rust. This trailblazing team lacked the development affordances, like feature flags, that other teams using more common languages had through the Unleash feature management platform. They needed a way to integrate with Unleash to safely manage feature rollouts.

The solution was for a Cognite architect to build a Rust SDK for Unleash, which was accomplished in just a few days. This allowed the team to instantly leverage feature flags for safer rollouts and incremental delivery. The SDK was so effective it was later adopted as an official Unleash product. The implementation had an immediate impact, enabling the team and subsequent others at Cognite to use Rust while gaining the full benefits of the Unleash platform for development agility and controlled releases.

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