Remote Config is available in Beta

We’ve just added remote feature configuration to Bucket. A dynamic, flexible approach to configuring feature behavior outside of your app – without needing to re-deploy it.

For example, you can use configs to configure AI models for your customers at runtime. With remote config, you can safely upgrade customers to the latest AI model or you can try different models for different segments of customers. If a new model is causing quality issues, you can easily roll back to a previous version.

You can also use configs to manage things like in-app copy. This means non-engineers can update the application on their own without touching the codebase.

How it works

Let’s say you’re using GPT-4o in your application and want the option to easily upgrade all or some customers to the latest version as soon as it arrives. Furthermore, you want to be able to give certain customers access to a competing model, Claude 3.7, to see if it outperforms GPT-4o.

Remote Config is based on JSON and is therefore highly flexible. You can decide which JSON payload to send to your application.

Here’s an AI configuration example:

All customers get gpt-4o from OpenAI as default except the two customers – Apex and Blaze – which get claude-3-7-sonnet from Anthropic.

When gpt-4o gets upgraded to the next version by OpenAI, you can simply go here to update the payload, or you can add a new, small beta segment to test the new OpenAI version, like so:

How to get started

To get started with Remote Config, you need to first upgrade to the latest version of our SDKs.

In the React SDK you can now use config when using useFeature:

const { config } = useFeature("sent-chat-message");

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As per our example in the screenshot above, if you’re authenticated as Adrian Borer or any user in the Logix or Hightrix companies, you’ll get this config:

Get user feedback on models

If you want to get user feedback on the models, you use Bucket’s requestFeedback, like so:

All feedback will be sent to the Feedback tab, right next to Remote Config, as well as to Slack, if you choose to.

To learn more about Remote Config, check out our documentation.

Happy shipping!