Feature Flags

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Suki builds an in-house proof of concept in Go after reading Facebook’s white paper and demos, then wires a dashboard so product and engineers can toggle features without code changes; engineers start shipping within minutes of the demo. Teams use flags to target by org or region, run experiments, and roll back fast. Companies cited: Flickr 10 deployments/day, Etsy 50+/day, AWS deploys every 11.6 seconds. Useful patterns: proof of concept, feature flags as culture, multivariate flags.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:21Feature Flags
3. 0:38Feature Flags Demo
4. 1:10Why Feature Flags
5. 1:52How Feature Flags Changed Feature Development
6. 2:38What Happened
7. 3:27Slack
8. 4:15Final Thoughts

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