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Splitting a Monolith with Feature Flags

Originally posted April 2023 on the Split Blog (with minor edits Jan 2024 by Joy specifically for this blog)

There are many reasons you may want to split up a monolith. I’m not going to go into too much detail, but some of the more common reasons include wanting to be able to scale functionality separately, modularizing the codebase, and avoiding the noisy neighbor problem.