All Blog Posts - Page 15

Best Practices
Jul 07
How Experimentation Tooling Can Set You Up For Failure

In this post, I want to talk about why it’s much better to think of experimentation as a layer on top of your parameterization system.

Robert Neal

Industry Insights
Jul 05
Tech Stack Considerations for Modern Applications

James Konik

Best Practices
Jun 28
How to Integrate Canary Releases into a CI/CD Pipeline

This article explores the ins and outs of canary releases and how to implement them among your other CI/CD processes.

Tyler Charboneau

Team & News
Jun 23
Building a Brighter Future with Code Nation and LaunchDarkly

This post details some of the work we’ve done with Code Nation—a non-profit dedicated to creating more equitable access to tech careers for students—and what has driven and sustained the relationship so well.

Alexis Georges

Best Practices
Jun 21
Enabling Digital Transformation Through DevOps

This article will show how you can use DevOps to achieve digital transformation in your company.

LaunchDarkly

Product Updates
Jun 15
LaunchDarkly Experimentation: A Flexible, Intuitive, Natural Extension of Your Workflow

Driven by feedback from hundreds of customers looking for a better way to run practical, meaningful experiments, LaunchDarkly Experimentation blends our expertise in seamless feature delivery with experimentation best practices to provide flexible and intuitive experiments that any team can interpret and take action on.

Cameron Savage

Industry Insights
Jun 14
What is User Acceptance Testing?

In this post, we'll take a close look at the what, when, and who of UAT, and then how to execute it successfully in the real world.

LaunchDarkly

Developer productivity
Jun 09
Blue-green vs. rolling deployments: pros, cons & implementation

Having an efficient and intelligent deployment pattern is integral for developing modern software. This article explores both blue-green and rolling deployments, their options, their benefits and challenges, and some tools that support both methods.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
Jun 07
Testing in Production with Kubernetes 

Let’s explore how to safely and effectively test in production with Kubernetes.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
Jun 02
How to Keep Control of Your Project with Agile Release Planning

In this article, you’ll learn how you can control releases by using an agile release plan and how you can plan more frequent production releases by using feature flags.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
May 31
Handling Data at the Edge with Cloudflare Workers

What's the big deal about edge functions? In this post, we'll explain and demonstrate how LaunchDarkly works with data at the edge.

Brian Rinaldi

Developer productivity
May 26
Feature-Driven Development vs. Test-Driven Development

In this post, we'll examine two popular Agile methodologies and outline their pros and cons.

LaunchDarkly

Product Updates
May 24
Now You Can View Feature Flags in Zendesk

The Zendesk integration allows your team members to see feature flag variation information for a user right from within the ticket.

Brandon Mensing

Risk mitigation
May 19
Reducing Risk in Your DevOps Pipeline

Let's take a look at some things that can go wrong—and how we can leverage our DevOps pipeline to make software production and delivery less risky.

LaunchDarkly

Team & News
May 18
Announcing HIPAA-Compliant Feature Management for Healthcare

We’re proud to announce an expansion of our commitment to healthcare customers looking to satisfy Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements. 

Yev Feinstein

Best Practices
May 17
Feature Branching: A Guide to the Do's and Don'ts

Let’s explore what feature branching is, and why developers create feature branches. Then, we’ll share our experience of what works—and what doesn’t—to help you successfully implement feature branching in your DevOps processes.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
May 12
5 Ways Astro Makes Building Web Apps Better

In this post, I'll explore the innovations of Astro and how you can integrate LaunchDarkly within the application.

Brian Rinaldi

Best Practices
May 10
How We Deploy Relay Proxy at LaunchDarkly

We often get asked about how we use Relay Proxy at LaunchDarkly, and this post will do all the explaining.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
May 05
Tips & Tricks: When Not to Use LaunchDarkly Feature Flags

From email blasts to API secrets, here are some examples of when feature flags just aren't going to work for you.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
May 03
How We Toggle in LaunchDarkly

In this blog post, we're going to step through a few of the most common ways we see people extend their toggling beyond just hitting the switch in the UI.

Cody De Arkland

Best Practices
Apr 28
Tips & Tricks: How to Automate Percentage Rollouts in LaunchDarkly

In this post, we'll explain the super easy way to perform a percentage rollout, as well as a more manual way when you really want to get hands-on. 

Kevin Smith

Best Practices
Apr 21
Wrapping LaunchDarkly

Even though the SDKs are straightforward to use, you're still likely to encounter a number of situations where you may prefer to create your own custom wrapper around the API provided by the SDK.

Brian Rinaldi

Galaxy
Apr 21
Roll Up for the Galaxy Tour

From June through October, throughout the United States, we'll be visiting five cities—San Francisco, Atlanta, New York City, Austin, and Chicago—with the goal of improving both your use of both LaunchDarkly and the processes surrounding feature management.

Kevin Smith

Product Updates
Apr 19
Big Segments: Simple Targeting at Scale

Jon Schulman