14 ways to Reduce Risk with Feature Flags

I’ve long been aware of the practice of using feature flags for things like releasing features more gradually or temporarily turning off a feature that’s causing issues. But until I started working with the Flipper team, I really had no understanding of just how much they can enable better workflows and release processes.To be fair, there are plenty of potential downsides with feature flags if they aren’t used carefully, but considered use can significantly improve how we build and release software.While they can be used in many different ways as temporary flags, permanent flags, circuit breakers, or a variety of other scenarios, it all boils down to de-risking feature launches by enabling smaller iterative releases that can be gradually enabled in order to make releases much less intimidating.