Reducing technical debt from feature flags
Reducing technical debt from feature flags Read time: 16 minutes Last edited: Oct 15, 2024 Overview This guide provides ways to reduce and eliminate technical debt related to feature flags using LaunchDarkly. Like all debt, technical debt accumulates over time, but you can mitigate that debt over time if you put effective processes in place before you need them. In this guide, we’ll explore: The challenge of technical debt The lifecycle of a flag Naming conventions Using tags Code references Deprecating, archiving, and deleting flags Just like feature flags should be a core engineering practice, so should a strategy to address technical debt. LaunchDarkly can help you by automatically identifying flags that need code removal or are ready to archive. ...