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Technical Debt: Why We Take It On and How We Pay It Off

Early debt can be almost invisible, but will always eventually turn into irreparable smithereens scattered across the codebase. 

Heidi Waterhouse

With $200 Million in Funding, Our Customers Remain the Top Focus

We are beyond excited about these new developments and, as always, our focus remains on improving the lives of our customers, and our customers’ customers. 

Edith Harbaugh

Launched: Run Easier, Smarter Experiments with New Traffic Allocation Rules

With LaunchDarkly, we make it easy to add feature flags at scale to any application across any platform. That ultimately empowers all teams to control their software, but it also creates unique opportunities to measure the impact of the changes you’re making to your software.

Cameron Savage

Catch the New Wave

Forrester has named us as a leader in their New Wave report on Feature Management and Experimentation.

Heidi Waterhouse

My Experience as a Career Switcher in Tech

Have you ever tried to write with your other hand? The non-dominant one? Your instincts are all off, and words that you produce look out of shape and unfamiliar. No matter how accustomed you are to an action, performing it in a different context can throw you completely off balance. I find that this is particularly true when you switch careers. 

Jessica Cregg

Not an Engineer? Find Out Where You Belong

Whether you've been working for decades or are just starting in non-engineering tech role, this advice can help you figure out where you belong.

Dawn Parzych

What Does a Technical Writer Do? A Day in the Life

What is a technical writer? Join the select few who are in the know.

Ember Stevens

A Beginners Guide to Feature Management for Federal Agencies

In this guide, you will learn how other agencies are already using feature management and how it might benefit your agency, especially your developers.

Sara Mazer

Call for Papers: Trajectory 2021

Dawn Parzych

A Week in the Life: A Manager's Perspective

Here’s a brief view into what my weeks look like as a manager of the developer marketing team at a high-growth start-up.  

Dawn Parzych

4 Tech Jobs for People Who Don't Code

There are many roles in tech for people who aren't engineers.

Dawn Parzych

Galaxy Talk: Supercharge Your Release Pipeline With These LaunchDarkly Configs

In this session from LaunchDarkly Galaxy, Caley Brock, a senior software engineer at VTS, talks about the process that helps her team ship faster and streamline testing.

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What Does Being "Technical" Mean?

Dividing people into "technical" and "non-technical" labels harms people and organizations. Learn why in part 1 of this series.

Dawn Parzych

Summer '21 Product Release Roundup

Our Product Delivery team has been hard at work the past quarter shipping incredibly powerful new functionality. Let’s take a look at some of the key highlights.

LaunchDarkly

Customer Spotlight: KnowBe4 Standardizes IT Practices, Improves Engineering Output by 23%

The KnowBe4 team selected LaunchDarkly as their platform of choice based on its intuitive user interface, sophisticated user targeting, SDKs for all major languages, and trusted architecture to support availability SLAs. 

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Galaxy Talks: Launching Darkly at Large Organizations

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Webinar Recap: Safe and Sensible - Deployment and Launch With Reduced Risks

If you're skeptical of how concepts like shipping faster and testing in production can actually improve your end result and create a safer overall release process, read on.

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Galaxy Talks: Feature Flags in Your Daily Workflows

In this talk, LaunchDarkly software engineer, Dan O'Brien, talks about the perils of losing focus, and how our platform wants to help enable your deep working sessions.

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Attracting and Retaining Engineering Talent in 2021

A conversation with StockX, Karat, and LaunchDarkly.

Alea Abed

Galaxy Talk: The Art of Shipping Broken Code

Learn how feature flags gave StockX the confidence to test out a new home page against an old one on the biggest shopping day of the year.

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Feature-Driven Development: A Brief Overview

As with other Agile software development frameworks, the goal of feature-driven development is to iterate quickly to satisfy the needs of the customer.

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What Is Server-Side Testing & How Does It Work?

In this post, we’ll find out what server-side testing is, how it works, and what your team can expect from it.

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Galaxy Talk: Fitness Functions and Flagging Conventions

In this talk from our recent user conference, Galaxy, Mark Burry, senior developer at iPipeline, recounts the journey his company embarked on with feature flags, and how it eventually found fitness functions and flagging conventions as best practices. 

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What Is a Canary Release?

Performing a canary release helps improve your final release for end users ahead of a much larger rollout. 

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