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When Loom's engineering team sat down to build their link preview feature in 2022, they estimated 2 weeks of work. Three months later, they were still wrestling with headless Chrome memory leaks, sites that loaded differently every time, and a $340/mo AWS bill just for the screenshot workers. They eventually gave up and bought an API.
A startup CTO deploys a new billing system on a Monday. It's been tested in staging but production is different. Within an hour, 15% of customers see broken invoices. The team scrambles to write a hotfix, test it, and deploy — total downtime: 3 hours. If they'd had a feature flag, they could have toggled the new billing off in 10 seconds.