How Etsy Slashed Deploy Time 80 Percent with Feature Flags

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Etsy's deployment pipeline used to take three hours, making Friday deploys a nightmare. Then their engineering team built a feature flag system that decoupled deployment from release, slashing deploy time by 80 percent and enabling canary launches for every change. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the architectural decisions behind Etsy's feature flag platform, how it reduced rollback risk, and why it became a cultural cornerstone for continuous delivery. Learn how the CTO championed this shift, the metrics that proved its value, and how other teams can adopt similar patterns without building a custom solution. Featuring specific examples from Etsy's migration to a flag-driven workflow, including the impact on developer velocity and incident frequency. #Etsy #FeatureFlags #Deployment #CTO #EngineeringLeadership #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #SiteReliabilityEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #TechDebt #DeveloperExperience #BusinessAndTechnology #Podcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheCTOPodcast #TechnicalLeadership #Architecture Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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