Nathan Lincoln, an SRE at Honeycomb, walks through the basics of feature flag best practices (using LaunchDarkly) to help you maintain a stable system.

Feature flags are useful for reducing outages and downtime in our systems by allowing traffic segmentation, but they can create chaos without proper maintenance.

The do’s and don’ts for success include:
Tagging your flags
Keeping in-code defaults current
Creating Control Rods
Not using flags as team-level settings
Cleaning up