All Blog Posts - Page 15

What to Expect When You're Expecting a LaunchDarkly SDK

In this post, I want to explore some of those features to give you a better sense of the value packed into each SDK.

Brian Rinaldi

Three Ways to Build Release Assurance into a Software Development Life Cycle

Release assurance is the state of knowing what version or variant of software a user has received, and what the effect has been. Here are three concrete actions to start building release assurance into software development life cycles.

Heidi Waterhouse

7 Mistakes You’re Making with Feature Flags

Common missteps many make in their feature flag journey revealed, and how to avoid them.

Heidi Waterhouse

Build Repeatable Releases in LaunchDarkly with Workflow Templates

With the launch of Workflow Templates, you can define what progressive delivery means for your organization and ensure your rollout steps are followed predictably across teams.

Liberty McBride

Explore Popular Git Branching Strategies & Free Resources

In this guide, you’ll learn why Git branching is so valuable and get introduced to different branching strategies that may fit your needs.

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Decoupling Monoliths With Container Orchestration and Feature Flags

In this guide, we'll talk about monolith migration patterns and how they interact in hypothetical scenarios. You’ll also learn more about feature flags, container orchestration, and other useful tools to employ in a monolith migration.

Oscar Nevarez

Release management 101: how to build your process

This article will explore the goals and benefits of the release management process and strategies for implementing that process in organizations.

Allan MacGregor

Report: Why Innovative Software Delivery Starts with Trust and Psychological Safety

When developers and engineers are held to strict standards and processes, they can feel too constrained and fearful of stepping out of line. For a larger organization, a laser focus on avoiding mistakes can impact everything from retention to the ability to create meaningful progress that separates their product from the competition.

Kevin Smith

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

Tech Stack Considerations for Modern Applications

James Konik

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

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

Enabling Digital Transformation Through DevOps

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

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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

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.

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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.

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Testing in Production with Kubernetes 

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

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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.

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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

Feature-Driven Development vs. Test-Driven Development

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

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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

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.

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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

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.

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