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5 cloud deployment models: which one is right for you?

Whenever you hear about the “cloud” or “cloud computing,” you think about computing resources that someone else manages. But that’s just one of the few cloud deployment models.

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What Is Deployment Automation? Best Practices & How to Start

Deployment automation refers to a software deployment approach that allows organizations to increase their velocity by automating build processes, testing, and deployment workflows for developers. In other words, it allows organizations to release new features faster and more frequently.

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Release Testing 101: How to Get Started

Release testing aims to find and eliminate errors and bugs from a software release so that it can be released to users. Let’s dive in and explore several methods used to perform release testing.

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Orchestration vs. Automation in the Cloud: How to Use Both

Automation and orchestration sound similar at first but are, in fact, different.

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1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. Migrates to the Cloud Seamlessly with LaunchDarkly

Learn how the engineering team at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. uses LaunchDarkly to ensure safe migrations and consistent customer experiences.

Alea Abed

What Is Container Orchestration, Exactly? Everything to Know

Container orchestration is the process of managing containers in an automated way—freeing engineers from tasks like (re)creating, scaling, and upgrading containers. On top of that, container orchestration also helps with managing networking and storage capabilities for containers.

Cody De Arkland

Announcing the Beta Release of the LaunchDarkly IntelliJ Plugin

Daniel OBrien

5 Tips to Optimize Software Release and Deployment Management

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Introducing Our New Podcast, Unintended Consequences

Like everyone else over the course of this past year, we have missed connecting with others within the DevOps community. We miss serendipity and the cumulative conversations we could have when we saw each other in new contexts. So we started this series to create a space where we can continue to have those discussions.

Kim Harrison

10+ Test Environment Best Practices You Need to Know

Testing software changes is critical to increasing the odds of your code working properly when released to all users. But what are the best approaches to the testing process? And what are the most effective ways to maintain test environments? 

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Git Branching Strategies vs. Trunk-Based Development

This article will first review the benefits and shortcomings of several common Git branching strategies. Then, we’ll compare those to trunk-based development to learn how the latter solves those shortcomings and enables modern software delivery practices through feature flag management.

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Favorite Moments from Galaxy, Our First-Ever User Conference

If you missed Galaxy, you can watch all the presentations from our first-ever user conference now.

Heidi Waterhouse

Software Release Management: Strategies & Best Practices

Release management is the process of optimizing all stages of launching a software product or feature. As enterprise software delivery becomes faster and more complex, release management is essential to meet deadlines without sacrificing quality.  

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Test environments 101: definition, types, and tests

This post explores test environments from the ground up. Not only will you learn what a test environment is, but you'll also discover how best to set up one in the era of continuous deployment. Then we'll discuss how best to manage them.

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What to Expect at LaunchDarkly Galaxy

This is an opportunity for our users to talk to each other, compare notes, and listen to people just like them describe what they have accomplished with LaunchDarkly. 

Heidi Waterhouse

How We've Been Celebrating Women’s History Month

We've rounded up some of the ways we spent the month celebrating and recognizing all those who identify as women.

Dawn Parzych

What Is Continuous Testing? A Straightforward Introduction

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My Experience as a New Mom in Tech

I want to share some of my experiences to help other women know more of what to expect, consider, and maybe even demand. I also want pregnancy and motherhood to become topics that don’t feel so foreign in the setting of, say, a tech blog.

Andrea Echstenkamper

Testing in production to stay safe and sensible

“Testing in production” refers to the practice of running code on production servers, using real data from real users, without showing the new behavior to the majority of users. These tests are frequently run during the final stages before releasing the software to a broad audience.

Heidi Waterhouse

How to Prepare Your Organization for the Next Big Thing

In this article, we’ll talk about some of the reasons we run from change, and how we can alter our perspective to open the door to it in a positive way that can have massive implications for our organizations. 

Dawn Parzych

Integrating Feature Flags in Angular v4

In this article, we’ll discuss how to eliminate risk and deliver value in your Angular project.

Why We’re Paying You to Hack Us

One of the ways we’re helping make LaunchDarkly’s security stronger is with our new public bounty program, which we launched in January with HackerOne. 

Kevin Smith

Takeaways from the 2021 State of Chaos Engineering Report

The Gremlin report revealed some interesting data points regarding the use of feature management as it pertains to high-performing teams. 

Dawn Parzych

Reflections on Black History Month at LaunchDarkly

In the spirit of education and community engagement, LaunchDarkly has spent February putting on a series of events to celebrate the month.

Tailor Fobbs