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		Supermancho 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's OK to hardcode feature flags Feature flags are ofter initially for feature and later left in as dependency flags. Even within a large organization, individual components and services by other teams will have outages.

ozim 11 months ago [–]

That sounds like bad engineering.

Having all kinds of flags makes system prone to misconfigurations.

As amount grows you get flags depending on other flags etc.

Gets insane rather quickly. Unless someone purges flags relentlessly.

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