The First Week of a Wild Ride

In their first week at a new job, the author experienced series B funding and celebrated with a trip to a local tiki bar. They have been learning a new programming language, deployment toolchain, and getting acquainted with colleagues while realizing there's much more for them to learn. The author has previously used LaunchDarkly for feature management at their last job, where they experienced an operational issue due to a bug that created a channel in RabbitMQ every time an event was published. This led to an outage when the RabbitMQ server ran out of memory and prevented all writes. The author is now excited about using feature flags for operational scenarios at their new job, as it allows them to disable publishing events for specific customers during high traffic situations, preventing service degradation and cascading issues. They anticipate continued growth and learning in this role.