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I’ve seen whole teams at companies set up fail to provide these booleans-as-a-service well. There are whole companies like LaunchDarkly for them.

If you boil it down to this, you may as well boil down every service that exists to bits-as-a-service.

Turns out theres legitimate business value in these things, and complexity in delivering them.

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It's like saying Dropbox is just rsync.

I mean... I, for my own needs, which are rather simple, can replace Dropbox with rsync. That's one thing. But yes, it's an entirely different thing to consider you don't need, or worse, could own, such business, on the simple premise you don't need it at your own level. That would be madness to mistake one for the other.

IIRC Dropbox was originally created using librsync

Dropbox has modified it

https://github.com/dropbox/librsync

This is why I prefer open source software. I can modify it

One person can use librsync to create a Dropbox company. Another person can use librsync for noncommercial purposes, e.g., to transfer and sync their own files

Either way, it's librsync

The data science is where the real value comes in. 10x flags changed this release - which one caused the improved CTR? Booleans as a service need to address this, and there are benefits to having your boolean service live next to your other services

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