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by ruh-roh 1607 days ago
Starting new at a startup-with-traction several years ago, I had reason to check out the feature flag configs for my first feature. It was hilarious.

- There were hundreds of them, some of them going back to the garage days, multiple years old. Some would turn on/off major functionality core to the product. For example, this was an ecommerce product - one toggle was "show/hide the buy button". (I think that one is staying in.) - This was all hand-rolled, pre-LaunchDarkly stuff, but at least they were all in one place. I diffed Production, Staging, and a one-off UAT environment - the toggles were MASSIVELY different across each.