.@Walmart get your act together, great value milk has been unavailable online & your stupid AI told me it was out of stock. I went to the f-cking store and there it was sitting on the shelf!
@AnhadSChawla@markproduct Feature flags: runtime conditionals you toggle without redeploying. Ship dark, roll out gradually, kill switch when prod breaks.
Downside: they rot. Every flag is a code path you have to test, and nobody ever deletes them. Two years later your codebase is 40% dead branches.
@LeifFC@victor_bigfield Except they have your software as the guide, it took you time to build in all the intricacies and it'll take them zero time to just copy it.
@nbcsandiego Article could use more scientific reflection and less creationist ideology. Is the number unusual? How are their numbers compared to when endangered? “They're just so fantastic. They have so many features that they were created with that just are mind-boggling.”