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Everything old is new again: > Flickr is somewhat unique in that it uses a code repository with no branches; everything is checked into head, and head is pushe
by js2 2y ago
Everything old is new again:
> Flickr is somewhat unique in that it uses a code repository with no branches; everything is checked into head, and head is pushed to production several times a day. This works well for bug fixes that we want to go out immediately, but presents a problem when we’re working on a new feature that takes several months to complete. How do we solve that problem? With flags and flippers!
https://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/ https://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/
- 20after4 2y agoThe Flickr team was really innovative and the industry as a whole learned a lot from them. Perhaps some of that wisdom has been lost on the next generation of developers and now it's being packaged and sold to them.