Software Architecture9 min read
The feature flag that never got removed
Flags are cheap to add and nobody owns removing them. A codebase with three hundred of them has 2^300 configurations, none of which is tested, and one of which is production.
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Software Engineering8 min read
We deleted 40% of our tests. Coverage went up.
A test that has never failed is either protecting something or costing something. We spent three weeks finding out which, and deleted 2,140 of them.