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gastonfournier

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    Comment #37694085

    I think expires is just a signal for a feature that should "potentially" be removed. I believe it's a good way to focus on the ones you should pay attention to. But, it might be co…

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    Comment #37631771

    There are a few case studies listed in most of the feature flag solutions, of course, each organization is completely different and the maturity of each organization varies. But fe…

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    Comment #37631719

    AFAIK, it'd only open a PR if the flag is fully enabled and has some heuristics to determine when it's safe to remove. Honestly, I haven't tested it but I'm curious to know if some…

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    Comment #37631622

    The main challenge is when things go wrong. Feature flags are designed for high-rate evaluation with low latency responses. Configuration usually doesn't care that much about laten…

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    Comment #37626526

    It can be done by opening a PR, I haven't tried it yet, but I'm curious to try out https://github.com/uber/piranha or maybe hear some experiences if someone has used it

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    Comment #37613698

    Victim of your own success. As others were saying, when it works for short-lived its easy/no effort to use it for long-lived configurations.

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    Comment #37613632

    Yes, please!

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    Comment #37613535

    I agree that if you have only a few changes going to prod, fast and doing canary testing, you should be covered. In my experience that's rarely the case because of multiple teams d…

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    Comment #37613510

    It's true that there are more long-lived use cases, but if you have the ability to choose, runtime controlled ones cover both cases, while compile time only cover some use cases. B…

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    Comment #37613473

    I faced something similar, and I think it's unavoidable. Give people a screwdriver and they'll find a way of using it as a hammer. The best you can do is expect the feature flaggin…