Flagsmith is an open source, fully featured, Feature Flag and Remote Config service. Use our hosted API, deploy to your own private cloud, or run on-premise.
The Flagsmith Edge Proxy allows you to run an instance of the Flagsmith Engine close to your servers. If you are running Flagsmith within a server-side environment and you want to have very low latency flags, you have two options:
- Run the Edge Proxy and connect to it from your server-side SDKs
- Run your server-side SDKs in Local Evaluation Mode.
The main benefit to running the Edge Proxy is that you reduce your polling requests against the Flagsmith API itself.
The main benefit to running server side SDKs in Local Evaluation Mode is that you get the lowest possible latency.