Feature Flag Cleanup: A Playbook for Paying Down Flag Debt
73% of feature flags are never removed — one reused bit cost Knight Capital $460M. The four-step playbook to clean up flag debt safely.
- cleanup
- debt
- fundamentals
Notes on feature flags, releases, and engineering.
73% of feature flags are never removed — one reused bit cost Knight Capital $460M. The four-step playbook to clean up flag debt safely.
Env vars configure where the process runs; flags decide what each request sees. Decision rule, comparison table, and 4 production gotchas inside.