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Rails Scales!
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Rails Scales!

by Cristian Planas
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Using Feature Flags for Better Rollouts

Another common source of problems with a big monolithic codebase id the deployment pipeline. Deploying is, in general, slow. Moreover, if something goes wrong with your newly deployed code, having to execute an unexpected deployment in the middle of the day can disrupt the whole engineering team. And, as your application grows, it becomes harder to be completely sure that your brand-new code will not hit some edge case—a circumstance that can force you to roll back the whole deployment altogether.

What if you could switch on and off parts of your application logic at will, making deployments a no-risk matter? What if you could enable a feature only for a group of selected users and add or remove users ...

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