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The episode discusses the importance of feature flags in continuous delivery with guest Egil Østhus, founder of Unleash.

From change management to marketing and product management, our guest Egil Østhus and I hit on a wide array of topics in our quest to understand and illuminate the humble feature flag. The idea of the feature flag is an important one because it's one of the primary supports to *actual* continuous delivery - it enables engineering teams to deliver with minimal friction. This multiplies creativity (that is to say "innovation"), the impact we're bringing to the lives of our customers, and through that, our own happiness and satisfaction with our work. While surprisingly powerful in their consequence, feature flags can - at times - also be surprisingly difficult to put into play. Egil helps with tangible, practical advice on how to get over some of these challenges - and of course offers a powerful tool ("Unleash") that we can all immediately leverage. To start with the open source tool - or to even jump in all the way with Unleash - go to getunleash.io. About Egil -- Egil Østhus is the founder and CEO of Unleash. Unleash is the largest open source FeatureOps platform globally today, and is used by massive enterprises across the globe. Prior to founding Unleash, Egil has worked in…

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