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What Is a Software Release?
There are a few different types of releases, which we can delineate based on the purpose they serve, their scope, and impact on users.
Rebecca Dodd
Galaxy Brain: Improving Progressive Delivery Through Observability
Teams are delivering software faster than ever, but speed is no substitute for quality.
LaunchDarkly
Tips & Tricks for using Terraform with LaunchDarkly
In this article, we’ll walk through ways to help you get started and some important considerations when using the LaunchDarkly Terraform provider.
Peter McCarron
The Impact of Mass Layoffs on Software Development
Engineers share their thoughts on what happens when an organization makes drastic, immediate cuts to a development team.
Kevin Smith
Simplify Audits with AWS CloudTrail Lake and LaunchDarkly
Development teams can now analyze change events from LaunchDarkly alongside changes from other vendors and AWS. This means it’s easier to stay compliant with fewer tools, overhead, and steps.
Brandon Mensing
What Is a Canary Deployment?
A canary deployment is a controlled rollout strategy involving pushing out changes to a small subset of users first before releasing to the rest of the user base.
Rebecca Dodd
Supercharge your Datadog RUM with Feature Flags
At LaunchDarkly, we use Datadog RUM software to monitor our application as customers interact with it. Because we were already using Datadog APM, adding client-side monitoring using Datadog RUM offers us a single pane of glass across our entire application.
Omar Ansari
Coordinating Feature Flags Across Microservices
To better understand the importance of proper feature management, we’ll explore some common difficulties that arise when coordinating feature flags across microservices.
LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly Announces FedRAMP® Moderate Authorization
Introducing LaunchDarkly Federal, the first FedRAMP-authorized feature management platform.
Sara Mazer
OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Lowering the Bar for “Code”
Imagine my surprise when I could feed ChatGPT prompts involving LaunchDarkly and frameworks/languages I commonly use (like Python, Flask, and React), and it returned pretty solid examples back!
Cody De Arkland
Introducing LaunchDarkly Professional Services
We’re excited to announce the launch of Professional Services: a dedicated part of our organization that will aid you by offering expertise in your feature flag adoption journey.
LaunchDarkly
Ship Faster with the New LaunchDarkly Approvals Dashboard
We’re excited to let you know we've released a new approval requests dashboard in LaunchDarkly to better track and manage approvals.
Liberty McBride
What Is a Production Environment?
A production environment is a real-time setting where the latest versions of software, products, or updates are pushed into live, usable operation for the intended end users.
LaunchDarkly
AWS re:Invent 2022 re:Capped
Let's catch you up on some of what you missed and how you can still dive in.
Alex Hardman
What Is Platform Engineering?
In this post we’ll take a look at what platform engineering is, the benefits it can bring, and how it differs from DevOps and site reliability engineering.
Rebecca Dodd
ICYMI: The Year in LaunchDarkly 2022
In this post, we'll share some of our highlights from the year in LaunchDarkly before we enter 2023.
Kevin Smith
Manage Approvals with Our New Slack App
LaunchDarkly is taking some of the manual burden out of supervising software changes with our Slack integration.
Liberty McBride
Trajectory Wrapped: 5 Key Takeaways from our November Conference
In this article, we’ll recap the top five talks based on our top-secret, proprietary, data-driven, and very scientific ranking model.
Peter McCarron
What Is DevOps? (And How To Set Your Organization up for DevOps Success)
In this guide, we’ll take a look at the origins of DevOps, including its predecessors, and explore what DevOps actually means in practice.
Rebecca Dodd
5 Takeaways from Galaxy Conference 2022
For a taste of some of the topics discussed with our customers at Galaxy, we've assembled this quick rundown of moments from various stops, in no particular order.
Kevin Smith
How to Get the Most from Our Datadog Integrations
With more frequent deploys and releases, it becomes crucial to measure the impact of a feature deployment on your systems.
Munnawar Hashim
What Is a Kill Switch in Software Development?
The concept of a kill switch is not confined to just apps and software development. In fact, the term predates anything having to do with a computer or code.
LaunchDarkly
The Role of the Release Manager in DevOps
DevOps and continuous delivery changed the game for release management, but there’s still value in the release manager’s position. We explore the changing role of release managers when much of their job has been automated away.
Rebecca Dodd
Using LaunchDarkly in AWS Serverless
This article will cover how to get LaunchDarkly set up in Lambda and show you how to handle those aspects that are unique to serverless.
Brian Rinaldi and Alex Hardman