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Insights on feature flags, progressive rollouts, and modern engineering practices from the ShipSilently team.
Not Everything Is a Feature Flag
A field guide to telling feature flags, config values, and user settings apart — three things that look identical at the API boundary and behave nothing alike. Miscategorize them and you end up with 240 'flags', a dashboard nobody trusts, and a 3am page about a setting that should have been a database row.
Read article →Yes, You Could Vibe-Code Your Own Feature Flag Service. Here's the Pitch Anyway.
deathbyclawd.com isn't wrong — Claude really can one-shot a feature flag service in an afternoon. The problem isn't the first afternoon. It's the next two hundred. A friendly, no-insults case for paying us a small amount of money instead.
Read article →The 6 Levels of Feature Flag Maturity (And Why Most Startups Get Stuck at Level 3)
From cowboy push-to-prod to a real flag system — a brutally honest map of how engineering teams actually evolve their release strategy, and how to know which level you should be at.
Read article →Why Feature Flags Are the Secret to Shipping Faster
Learn how feature flags decouple deployment from release, enabling teams to ship code daily while maintaining stability and control.
Read article →Edge Computing and Feature Flags: The Sub-Millisecond Advantage
How evaluating feature flags at the edge eliminates latency and transforms the performance profile of your application.
Read article →Trunk-Based Development with Feature Flags: A Practical Guide
How to adopt trunk-based development using feature flags to keep your main branch always deployable while shipping large features incrementally.
Read article →Progressive Rollouts: How to Ship Without the Big Bang
A deep dive into progressive rollout strategies using feature flags — from canary deployments to percentage-based releases.
Read article →Managing Feature Flag Technical Debt
Feature flags improve velocity, but left unchecked they become a source of complexity. Learn how to keep your flag inventory clean and maintainable.
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