Deployment and release are two decisions, not one. The flag patterns that buy you instant reversibility, and the retirement discipline most teams skip.
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How do you decouple deployment from release with feature flags, and who retires the flags afterwards?
Deployment and release are two decisions, not one. The flag patterns that buy you instant reversibility, and the retirement discipline most teams skip.
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