Feature flagging tools have grown in popularity as a way to decouple releases and deployment,

but they can introduce their own long-term problems and tech debt.

Leco is a startup democratizing the practice of dynamic configuration.

Their motivating idea is to empower engineers to focus on software releases and business teams

and other stakeholders to shape deployment.

Conrad Neumick is the founder and CEO

at Leco. He previously worked at Uber where an internal tool called Flipper enable dynamic

configuration management and which today serves as a key design inspiration for Leco. Conrad joins the show

with Sean Falconer to talk about his company and the technology they're developing. This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer. Check the show notes for more information

on Sean's work and where to find him. Conrad, welcome the show. Conrad, welcome the show.

Thank you.

Really excited to be here.

Yeah, thanks so much for being here.

I'm excited to get into this.

So, you know, one of the places I wanted to start was around essentially feature flags and feature flighting tools at scale.

Like, it doesn't take long, I think, for feature flags to kind of get out of control and for

teams to not know even what certain flags do anymore.

And based on some of your experience, I know you worked previously at Uber and now you're

building a company sort of related to this space.

What are some of the

problems that you've seen teams run into as these tools are started to be used at scale

when people are trying to leverage feature flags? Yeah, definitely. As you're saying,

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