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Managing Toggle Debt in Growing Codebases

Flags that outlive their purpose create maintenance risk. Put governance and SLAs in place to clean them up.

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FeatureFuse Team

Every flag should have an owner, intent, and a removal date once shipped.

Set Ownership

  • Owner per flag
  • Slack channel
  • Runbooks

Automate Cleanup

  • Search for stale flags
  • Create tickets automatically
  • Block merges if overdue

Sunset Playbook

  • Freeze targeting
  • Flip default to on
  • Remove code paths
  • Delete flag in provider

Treat flags as temporary scaffolding. FeatureFuse’s audits and last‑seen evaluation help identify flags ready to retire.

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