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Feature flags vs branching

Alex Casalboni

Alex Casalboni

Developer Advocate

The real comparison isn’t “branches vs. flags” as interchangeable techniques for isolating work. Branches are a source-control construct; feature flags are a runtime control plane. They operate on different layers of the delivery pipeline, and modern teams use both. What changes with a FeatureOps approach is that releases stop being tied to deploys at all. […]