February 24, 202611 min read

Types of Technical Debt: A Complete Guide for Engineering Teams

Understand every type of technical debt---from deliberate shortcuts to feature flag debt---and learn which types to prioritize based on their impact on your codebase and team velocity.

Technical DebtEngineering Management

February 8, 202613 min read

Feature Flags in Ruby on Rails: Flipper, Unleash, and Cleanup Best Practices

A comprehensive guide to implementing feature flags in Ruby on Rails with Flipper, Unleash, and custom solutions. Covers rollout patterns, Rails-specific pitfalls, and why cleanup matters more in Rails than you think.

Feature FlagsRuby

February 7, 202613 min read

How to Measure Technical Debt: Metrics That Actually Work

Move beyond gut feeling. Learn concrete metrics for measuring technical debt---including flag age, flag density, cleanup velocity, and unused code percentage---and how to build a dashboard that makes debt visible.

Technical DebtEngineering Management

February 3, 202612 min read

New Developer Onboarding: How Stale Feature Flags Slow Down Your Team

Stale feature flags meaningfully slow new hire onboarding. Here's how flag debt creates confusion for new developers and what to do about it.

Feature FlagsEngineering Management

February 2, 202616 min read

Feature Flags in .NET/C#: Managing Flags in Enterprise Applications

A complete guide to feature flags in .NET and C#. From Microsoft.FeatureManagement to LaunchDarkly SDK, plus testing patterns and cleanup strategies for enterprise teams.

Feature FlagsBest Practices

January 30, 20269 min read

Why Your CI/CD Pipeline Is Slow (And How Feature Flags Make It Worse)

Stale feature flags silently bloat builds, slow tests, and add dead code paths. Here's how they're dragging down your CI/CD pipeline and what to do about it.

Feature FlagsDevOps

January 29, 202614 min read

The Developer Experience Cost of Technical Debt

How technical debt destroys developer experience, increases attrition, and slows hiring. Quantify the DX cost and build the case for debt reduction investment.

Technical DebtEngineering Management

January 29, 202613 min read

Feature Flag Testing Strategy: How to Test Without Losing Your Mind

With n flags you have 2^n possible states. Here's how to build a practical testing strategy that covers what matters without drowning in combinatorial complexity.

Feature FlagsCode Quality

January 26, 202615 min read

Feature Flag Naming Conventions That Make Cleanup Easy

Good flag names are self-documenting and make stale flags obvious. Here's a complete naming convention guide with templates your team can adopt today.

Feature FlagsBest Practices