danzdance

I think they are a necessary evil. I haven't seen a better mechanism to allow dynamic changes to production, but they come with a big downside for operations.

The problem with feature flags is that (assuming a flag can only be "on" or "off") once you introduce the flags you have 2^n different possible states the system can be in. When you have a bug or a crash, you have to reason about all of those states. If you have even 10 flags, that's over 1,000 combinations!

Does anyone have a different way of enabling "experiments" or quickly rolling back bad changes?

The posting makes the job sound pretty fun! I like the examples.

I don't really like the use of the word "badass" in the ad; it feels kind of unprofessional.

Also this is minor, but...

/s/acutally/actually