10th July 2023
At The Guardian we had a pretty direct way to fix this [the problem of zombie feature flags]: experiments were associated with expiry dates, and if your team's experiments expired the build system simply wouldn't process your jobs without outside intervention. Seems harsh, but I've found with many orgs the only way to fix negative externalities in a shared codebase is a tool that says "you broke your promises, now we break your builds".
Recent articles
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything - 19th May 2026
- The last six months in LLMs in five minutes - 19th May 2026
- Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal - 7th May 2026