I completely agree with your distinction and that is exactly what they mandated :)
I don't think that is what most people colloquially mean by "feature flags" though. Even most teams in Shopify abused "ephemeral" flags for long periods of time.
When they rolled out the mandate it was very annoying for my team because we had a lot of operational flags like you're describing that we needed to get exemptions for.
I don't think that is what most people colloquially mean by "feature flags" though. Even most teams in Shopify abused "ephemeral" flags for long periods of time.
When they rolled out the mandate it was very annoying for my team because we had a lot of operational flags like you're describing that we needed to get exemptions for.