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Feature Toggles are Technical Debt, but still great

Feature toggles let a team decouple release to product from release to users. This is great, but also requires discipline to clean out obsolete toggles.

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This article is a guest blog by Egil Østhus, CEO of Bricks Software AS. Bricks is the company driving the open source feature management system Unleash.

Are there really any development teams that haven’t experienced the pressure of delivering “more” or quicker to production? In this case “More” often means functionality or new customer facing features. Developer efficiency is more important than ever, and feature toggles allow increased speed to market. Feature toggles allow a developer team to decouple release to product from the release to users. This has clear benefits to the development team on how they release a new feature:

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