
Feature Flags in Production: Patterns and Anti-patterns for Safe Releases
The Great Flag Debate: Why Your Releases Need Guardrails You know that feeling when you’ve just deployed to production and suddenly realize you’ve introduced a bug that affects 10,000 users? That cold sweat moment when everyone’s staring at the Slack channel? Yeah, feature flags exist to save you from that particular brand of professional anxiety. Feature flags (also called feature toggles or feature switches) represent a fundamental shift in how we think about deployment and release....

