Shipping and Learning Fast via Feature Flags

Feature flags are a great way to enhance the speed with which you can collaborate with colleagues, develop in production, and also learn from real-world usage. Using feature flags to enable things selectively for users is an established pattern. Now, take it a step further and use them to enable fast iterative shipping for your development team. I’ll talk about how we’ve unlocked the ability to use production to safeguard production at GitHub - as counter intuitive as that might sound!