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A comment on Ask HN: Do you use a feature flag system? What does it look like?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you use a feature flag system? What does it lo... by builder555 on Saturday February 10, 2024 @12:13PM (#39328009)
Tried feature flags, but it ended up being a mess. Went back to dev/master branches with automated tests between them using standard GitHub workflows.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you use a feature flag system? What does it lo... by abahlo on Saturday February 10, 2024 @01:09PM (#39328625)
The mess is what I‘m concerned about—I don’t want to introduce new complexity if I can avoid it.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you use a feature flag system? What does it lo... by in9 on Saturday February 10, 2024 @01:38PM (#39328967)
idk, feature flags for the entire application seem ok to me. The issue is when we want to add feature flags for part of the users, or only on a part of the application flow. Then it will become a mess.

Where I work, those feature flags are used to deploy a feature for a single application "run time", i.e. a country, which has its own cloud and everything.

BTW have you read the article on feature flags on Fowler's website? Could help you form some opinions https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

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