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Comment by roel_v

Maybe this works in the type of work this guy does, but I've been horribly burned by feature flags. How do you test for the combinatorial explosion of feature interactions? Even if you separate into 'silos' that pinky promise do not affect anything beyond some 'defined' boundary, interactions are still too numerous to test as different products very quickly. And now you have person A using 'feature flag combination' A' and person B using feature flag combination B', and they ask you a question about how this or that is supposed to work, and you won't even know until you are able to exhaustively reason through what the effect of every feature flag this person has en/disabled is - if you even know that at all.

Yes in the end it's all in the process, but feature flags are not the end-all be-all these few paragraphs posit them to be.

parent roel_v 3 years ago

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