Do Away with Duct Tape: Infrastructure Rollouts a Safer Way

The introductory blog post by Zuhaib, a Software Developer at LaunchDarkly, discusses his experience with feature flags and how they are used in the company to ensure a good user experience. He mentions that he previously worked for Atlassian where he first encountered LaunchDarkly as an alternative to their homemade solution. The post highlights how LaunchDarkly's advanced feature flags were utilized during a recent ElasticSearch cluster upgrade, allowing them to control rollout and monitor performance without impacting users. The code snippet demonstrates how the feature flag is used in this scenario.