Why Feature Flags Still Matters
Somewhere between a legacy codebase and home, the thought finally made sense. The trick, if there is one, is to leave sufficient room for missteps.
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Debugging Test Suites
I tried the pragmatic version first. It did not last.
A Readable Approach to Small Services
It is simple to overthink refactoring. It is harder to just start. I wrote most of this on a calm Thursday morning.
Revisiting Feature Flags
Logs are only useful if someone can read them at three in the morning.
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Good log files is mostly a series of small, unglamorous decisions. Nothing here requires a debugger, though it does make things easier. Most performance problems are really data-shape problems. Read more
The details matter less than the habit of paying attention.