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Best Practices
Mar 08
When to Think About Technical Debt from Feature Flags

When it comes to feature flags, I’m often asked how you can make sure that adding them won’t result in accumulating even more technical debt. Forgetting to clean up code or remove a feature flag after it’s rolled out to 100% of users isn’t due to maliciousness or laziness.

Dawn Parzych

Industry Insights
Mar 03
Meeting People Where They Are: A Conversation with James Governor

In this "Fireside Chat" with Co-founder of RedMonk, James Governor, and Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at LaunchDarkly, Cody De Arkland, we follow the theme of meeting developers where they are–whether quite literally as companies consider bringing people back into the office, or more figuratively in terms of inclusivity and psychological safety.

LaunchDarkly

Product Updates
Mar 01
Review Flag Changes Quicker with Inbox

We’re happy to announce that now your team members can review flag changes as soon as they open LaunchDarkly via the newly-launched Inbox.

Liberty McBride

Best Practices
Dec 01
Using Feature Flags to Avoid Downtime During Migrations

How we used feature flags to safely migrate a high-throughput data processing system.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
Feb 22
How to Get More from Our Slack Integration

Simple best practices to get more value from your emoji-filled LaunchDarkly notifications.

Kevin Smith

Developer productivity
Feb 17
Using LaunchDarkly with TypeScript

If you are already using TypeScript in your application development or looking to start, this post will show you how to get LaunchDarkly working within your TypeScript code using the Node.js SDK and how to integrate the React SDK for the frontend in a TypeScript project.

Brian Rinaldi

Feature Flags
Feb 15
Paramount Improves Developer Productivity 100X With LaunchDarkly 

How Paramount went from deploying twice a month to multiple times per day.

Matt DeLaney

Industry Insights
Feb 08
How LaunchDarkly Uses Feature Flags: Integrations and Pricing Tiers

In this new series, we will explore some of the many ways LaunchDarkly uses feature flags to maintain various aspects of its own product.

Isabelle Miller

Product Updates
Feb 08
Feature Releases Have Never Been Easier with Workflows

For release managers and developers who plan their releases in advance or teams that have pre-defined rollout plans in place, you can now create all of the stages as part of a workflow within LaunchDarkly.

Liberty McBride

Industry Insights
Feb 03
Why DevOps Won’t Solve Everything

Excerpts of a conversation between Edith Harbaugh and Patrick Debois.

Jessica Cregg

Best Practices
Feb 01
Flagging at the Edge: Combining LaunchDarkly with edge functions

In this post, we'll explore a couple of popular edge function solutions and see how integrating them with LaunchDarkly flags can allow for some truly powerful solutions.

Brian Rinaldi

Best Practices
Jan 25
Talking Relaxed, Simplified Release Processes with FullStory and SPS Commerce

"We were all excited. There was a buzz. People were excited to use it. It was almost like a ball rolling downhill.”

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
Jan 20
Using LaunchDarkly in Automated Testing

Tali Friedman

Industry Insights
Jan 18
Code Climate Guest Post: Boost Engineering Speed With Objective Data

To truly measure progress and improve over time, engineering teams need objective data.

Hillary Nussbaum

Best Practices
Jan 11
Internal Documentation for External Results

Why spending more time on your internal technical documentation can become an enormous force-multiplier for your entire team.

Heidi Waterhouse

Product Updates
Jan 06
Teams: A Better Way to Organize and Manage Your Usage of LaunchDarkly

Learn how our new feature gives you the ability to group members into teams to better reflect your organizational structure within our platform.

Emily Koehler

Best Practices
Jan 04
Elite Performance with Trunk-based Development

From the way that it compliments our internal rewards-based thought patterns, to its ability to support collaborative achievement of a flow state, trunk-based development supports a multitude of team goals. If done well, it can become the backbone to your development lifecycle.

Jessica Cregg

Feature Flags
Dec 28
ICYMI: The Year in LaunchDarkly

Since the end of a year tends to bring a lot of reflective moments, we wanted to quickly run down some of the stuff that happened around here in case you missed it.

Kevin Smith

Product Updates
Dec 16
Winter ‘21 Product Release: Reimagining the Last Mile of Continuous Delivery

In this post, we’ll recap some of our recent product announcements that are helping organizations transform their delivery processes at scale.

LaunchDarkly

Team & News
Dec 14
LaunchDarkly Audit Shows Systems Unaffected by Log4j Vulnerability

LaunchDarkly prioritizes the security of our customers' data. That’s why last week, when researchers discovered a significant vulnerability in the widely-used Java library Log4j, the LaunchDarkly Security team conducted an immediate investigation to determine how the vulnerability impacted our systems.

LaunchDarkly

Product Updates
Dec 09
Now in Beta: Automate your Releases with the Workflow Builder

Get ready to launch features… with even more automation! The Workflow Builder allows you to make complex workflows, easily. Now you can schedule future rollout stages, target multiple segments, and even include multiple reviews for different parts of your releases.

Liberty McBride

Trajectory
Dec 14
Your Reading Recommendations from Trajectory Attendees

To extend the learning opportunities at this year’s Trajectory, we have attendees the option to share with us a book they would recommend.

Dawn Parzych

General
Nov 30
Overcoming the Fears of Perpetual App Modernization

The biggest risks that keep organizations from moving forward with large-scale initiatives, and how feature flags can make the process downright boring.

Kevin Smith

Best Practices
Nov 29
Primer: Launching Darkly with Amazon Web Services

When developer teams learn about LaunchDarkly, one of the first questions they ask is, “How can I use LaunchDarkly and AWS together?”

Cody De Arkland