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Ready, Set, Action(s)! - Flag Evaluations for GitHub Actions
In this article, we’ll provide a quick “Who, What, Why” overview of the integration and what it could mean for developers looking to build out a robust CI/CD solution with GitHub and LaunchDarkly.
Peter McCarron
What is a staging environment?
A proper staging environment can catch most problems related to your code before it goes live. So, let’s talk about it.
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5 Talks to Boost Experimentation with LaunchDarkly
If you're already using LaunchDarkly, you may not be familiar with the various ways our platform can help with your experiments.
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Webinar: Beyond DORA Metrics
DORA metrics changed the way a lot of engineering organizations viewed their productivity, but there’s a risk in getting hung up on moving faster just for the sake of it.
Rebecca Dodd
Tame the Dragon and Other Release Management Lessons
Today, we'll share a couple stories about making releases uneventful, even as your company is scaling out
Rebecca Dodd
The Five Stages of Feature Flag Adoption
In this post, I want to lay out a common pattern I hear when I talk to developers about their adoption of feature flags that may help you in thinking about and planning your own.
Brian Rinaldi
7 Benefits of Containerization
Let’s walk through what containerization means these days, how it works, and how it can benefit your workloads and application development.
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How to Migrate a Database
In this post, you'll gain a high-level view of database migrations, common terminology, motivation for migrating databases, and common pitfalls along with their solutions.
Alex Hardman
SRE vs. Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
Site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, and DevOps are all related concepts around optimizing and giving structure to different aspects of the software delivery and software deployment lifecycles.
Rebecca Dodd
Winter Product Release: Limitless Targeting Possibilities with Custom Contexts
From the release of custom contexts to the approvals dashboard, LaunchDarkly customers can continue to move quickly, with minimal risk and even greater control over feature releases than ever before.
Allison Rogers
Announcing Custom Contexts: Feature Flags Aren’t Just for Users Anymore
To unlock new use cases and eliminate second-class workarounds, you can now define, experiment, and target based on custom contexts that are uniquely relevant to your business.
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Tim Cook
AWS Re:Invent 2022 Recap: Building and Operating at Scale with Feature Management
Titled "Building and Operating at Scale with Feature Management," the session emphasized that feature management isn't just about showing or hiding things from end users; it's actually a way of evolving your software stack safely.
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Dreaming Bigger
Today begins an exciting new chapter for LaunchDarkly! We’re welcoming Dan Rogers as CEO and our co-founder Edith Harbaugh is stepping into the role of Executive Chair.
Edith Harbaugh
Feature flag considerations in a microservice architecture
In this article, you’ll learn more about feature flags and the situations in which they can help you. You’ll also see how they can be used to help you take granular control of your microservices, enabling you to test new features easily.
James Konik
AWS Re:Invent Session Recap: Observability, Security, and Feature Management
The session covered how threats have evolved, new detection methods, and how feature flags can play a crucial role in both detecting and responding to attacks in highly innovative (and sometimes entertaining) ways.
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Feature Flagging for SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Teams
In this article, you'll take a look at what feature flags are and how they can benefit site reliability engineers, specifically, in their quest to keep an application up and running.
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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.
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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.
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