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When to use Feature Flags: Extra-Ordinary Unconfidence

Feature flags are a sine qua non for effective Continuous Deployment (CD)—and yet, they aren't always necessary. Nearly every sprint I've observed for the past 10 years has included the question "should this be feature-flagged?" at least once. Such a common question deserves

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In defense of unit tests

A few years back, Guillermo Rauch—now the CEO of Vercel—tweeted a pithy assessment of automated testing: Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration. — Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) December 10, 2016 This inspired Kent C. Dodds to write that: Integration tests strike a great balance on the trade-offs between confidence

Better Living through Memcached

I wanted to put something specific in the title, like “Speed up your service” or “Reduce server load” or “Limit database calls” or… You see why I chose “Better Living.” Memcached [http://danga.com/memcached/] is a memory caching system with an obvious name. It allows you to store basically