https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/platform/ Recent content in Platform on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:02:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2023/02/feature-flags-at-scale-beyond-the-on/off-switch/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:02:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2023/02/feature-flags-at-scale-beyond-the-on/off-switch/ Feature flags sound simple — toggle code on or off. At scale they're a deployment primitive, an experimentation platform, a kill-switch infrastructure, and a source of technical debt. Here's what a mature feature flag system looks like and how to avoid the traps. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2020/08/the-platform-vs-product-tension-in-a-growing-startup/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:45:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2020/08/the-platform-vs-product-tension-in-a-growing-startup/ Every startup engineering team eventually faces the platform question: invest in the foundation or keep shipping features? The tension is real, the tradeoffs are non-obvious, and the wrong answer in either direction is costly.