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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by illamint on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:06AM (#50393221)
What if your DB is down?
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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by the_fury on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:18AM (#50393368)
Have a safe default fallback.
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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by mportela on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:44AM (#50393760)
Wouldn't you be having bigger problems if the DB is down (especially if you have good defaults for the flags)?
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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by thephyber on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:28PM (#50395410)
My website company 20 years ago was running Memcached keys for each of the feature flags so they only had to be loaded about once per session from the DB most of the time.

Scaling things like this is a mostly solved problem. Having your website load when the DB is down is not.

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