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by randerson 722 days ago
The sole reason I like feature flags is that I can quickly toggle off a change if it causes a problem. I'd hate to need to find someone to sign off on restoring service. Anything more than 1 or 2 clicks is just adding precious seconds to an outage. I've worked at places that gave broad implicit approval to developers to toggle away as needed. It worked well.
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> I'd hate to need to find someone to sign off on restoring service.

In these shops, this gets handled via paging on-call engineers. The on-call is sometimes given more latitude if their actions are auditable.

Imagine being called out of bed to turn off a feature flag.

This is nonsense.