Feature Flags in Production: The Operational Debt Nobody Budgets For
Feature flags accumulate. After eighteen months and three product releases, our flag system had 140 active flags and three engineers who understood any given flag's interaction graph.
Feature flags accumulate. After eighteen months and three product releases, our flag system had 140 active flags and three engineers who understood any given flag's interaction graph.
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