OldSchoolPro

Interesting points.

I'm wondering about MongoDB. Have you tried it recently? It really improves with every release. We have a 20TB Mongo database and it's fast and problem free.

Also regarding the queues. In my personal experience a single RabbitMQ server with good hardware can easily handle 50GB a day.

Exactly, every time the government wants to pass a law, they can arrange the killing of a few dozen/hundred/thousand people.

Too bad people still watch TV and get dog trained/brainwashed to stop thinking after hearing phrases like "conspiracy theory".

It's working fine, thank you very much. Of course it has little to do with terrorism, but in the political theater one has to make excuses for the unwashed masses.

Install Chrome, install extension, don't use Safari :)

IMHO with the current management Twitter will stagnate and die.

Because shiple :)

I'm sure there a lot of strange requirements in random states of India, China, Russia, Egypt, etc as well.

Don't overdo it, use coarse grained switches.

Throw hardware at it.

Switches are temporary, with time their number will settle.

And still somehow feature switching works great at Facebook, Google and Goldman Sachs with big teams.

Merging complex changesets across branches is impossible to do 100% correct every time. Not unless you're a 10 feat tall code crunching robot.

Use automated integration tests and test every combination.

Heh, there's always opposition to new practices. Branching has been mainstream for a long time, it's only fair to expect resistance to any alternatives.

Give it a few years and everybody will use feature switching, except the old man enterprise dev :)

There are a million things that feature switching let's you do. Enable and disable instantly, enable for .00001% of the users, integration test different combinations, etc.

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