Personal writing by Gavin Clive

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Your Feature Flag Had a Baby and It's a Database

One payload is configuration. Forty of them is a database nobody designed.

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You Don't Need a Design System. You Need a Constraint System.

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The Browser Doesn't Care About Your "Render Time"

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Feature-Flag-Driven Development