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Deep dives into feature flag technical debt, its impact on teams, and proven strategies for elimination.
Move beyond gut feeling. Learn concrete metrics for measuring technical debt---including flag age, flag density, cleanup velocity, and unused code percentage---and how to build a dashboard that makes debt visible.
A practical framework for prioritizing technical debt based on business impact, engineering effort, and risk. Includes scoring rubrics, templates, and real-world examples.
Stale feature flags meaningfully slow new hire onboarding. Here's how flag debt creates confusion for new developers and what to do about it.
Stale feature flags silently bloat builds, slow tests, and add dead code paths. Here's how they're dragging down your CI/CD pipeline and what to do about it.
How technical debt destroys developer experience, increases attrition, and slows hiring. Quantify the DX cost and build the case for debt reduction investment.
A practical governance framework for feature flags: ownership policies, lifecycle rules, review processes, and retirement automation. Ready to adopt for teams of any size.
Trunk-based development encourages more feature flags — but who cleans them up? The missing piece in every TBD guide and how to fix it.
Industry benchmarks show the average team has 50-200 flags, but most are never removed. Here's how to know when your flag count has crossed from healthy to harmful.
A detailed account of what engineering teams experience when they undertake a large-scale feature flag cleanup, including the surprising metrics improvements and lessons learned.
LaunchDarkly's MAU-based pricing means stale flags cost real money. Learn exactly how to audit, identify, and eliminate unnecessary flag evaluations to cut your bill.
Your codebase likely contains 10-30% dead code. Learn how to detect and remove it using static analysis, coverage tools, and AST parsing—including the hidden dead code behind feature flags.
An industry analysis of feature flag debt trends in 2026, including adoption rates, cleanup practices, tooling landscape, and predictions for the future of flag management.
A comprehensive framework for understanding the complete feature flag lifecycle, from initial creation through rollout, monitoring, deprecation, and final cleanup.
Feature flag cleanup in microservices architectures is exponentially more complex than in monoliths. Learn why distributed flags create unique challenges and how to solve them.
Practical strategies for getting buy-in on feature flag cleanup from stakeholders, product managers, and fellow engineers. Templates and talking points included.
A strategic overview for CTOs on how feature flag debt silently erodes engineering velocity, increases incident risk, and what executive-level actions can reverse the trend.
Why feature flag debt hits mobile apps harder than web services, and how to manage cleanup across Swift, Kotlin, and React Native codebases.
Learn to recognize the early warning signs that feature flags are turning your codebase into an unmaintainable nightmare—and what to do before it's too late.
Uncover the hidden costs of feature flag maintenance. Calculate what poor flag hygiene really costs your engineering team.
Why most feature flags become permanent tech debt and how to prevent your codebase from becoming a flag graveyard.
Knight Capital lost $460M in 45 minutes from one stale feature flag. Learn the critical lessons every engineering team needs.
Learn to identify, prevent, and eliminate feature flag technical debt. Practical strategies to save your team $125k+ annually.