Progressive Delivery and Feature Flags: A Practical Guide

Progressive delivery uses feature flags for canary releases, percentage rollouts, and ring deployments. A practical guide to implementation, monitoring, and the cleanup challenge it creates.

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February 4, 202614 min read

Feature Flag Rollback Strategy: When and How to Use Kill Switches

Kill switches enable instant rollbacks — but they become liabilities when forgotten. A practical guide to rollback strategies, kill switch design, and knowing when to retire them.

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January 30, 20269 min read

Why Your CI/CD Pipeline Is Slow (And How Feature Flags Make It Worse)

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.

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January 29, 202613 min read

Feature Flag Testing Strategy: How to Test Without Losing Your Mind

With n flags you have 2^n possible states. Here's how to build a practical testing strategy that covers what matters without drowning in combinatorial complexity.

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January 23, 202613 min read

Feature Flags and Trunk-Based Development: The Cleanup Problem Nobody Talks About

Trunk-based development encourages more feature flags — but who cleans them up? The missing piece in every TBD guide and how to fix it.

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November 20, 202511 min read

Feature Flags in Monorepos: Cross-App Guide

How to manage feature flags across multiple applications in a monorepo, including shared flag utilities, cross-app cleanup coordination, and avoiding flag sprawl.

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October 23, 202511 min read

Feature Flags in CI/CD: Automate Cleanup

How to integrate feature flag cleanup into your CI/CD pipeline with automated detection, age warnings, and PR-based removal workflows.

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October 9, 202511 min read

Feature Flags in Microservices: Why Cleanup Is 10x Harder

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.

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October 2, 202513 min read

How to Configure .flagshark.yaml for Custom Flag Providers

A step-by-step tutorial for configuring FlagShark to detect feature flags from any provider, including LaunchDarkly, Unleash, Split, and custom in-house solutions.

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