All Blog Posts - Page 5

Dec 05

LaunchDarkly enhances Snowflake data export – unlocking custom warehouse analysis

These enhancements will allow engineering, product, and data teams to create experiments within LaunchDarkly and export the audience data to conduct further advanced analysis right within their Snowflake workflows.

Allison Rogers

Dec 04

7 key takeaways for software development teams from RedMonk’s James Governor

Sarah Beldo

Nov 27

Detecting vaccine misinformation in a custom Bluesky feed, using LaunchDarkly and OpenAI

In this tutorial, you’ll create a Bluesky custom feed in Python that filters posts based on keywords. You’ll use an OpenAI model to do basic sentiment analysis on the posts, discarding the ones that are likely to be misinformation. Then you’ll wrap the LLM call in a LaunchDarkly feature flag so you can quickly enable it when misinformation surges.

Tilde Thurium

Nov 21

Introducing our new, guided metric creation experience

Whether you’re managing feature flags in real time or running controlled experiments, metrics allow you to see what’s moving the needle—and what needs adjusting.

Giannis Psaroudakis

Nov 02

6 Kubernetes deployment strategies (with sample code)

Jesse Sumrak

Nov 19

Building a culture of experimentation: the power of tiny gains

What I’m talking about here is making a better decision: using causal data to inform your decision making, so that your decision aligns most closely with the customer behaviors you’re looking to change.

Scott Shindeldecker

Industry Insights

Nov 19

Innovation Without Compromise: Navigating The Balance Between Speed And Stability

Companies are under immense pressure to keep innovating and delivering software quickly. Yet, this drive for speed can come at the expense of software stability—but it doesn’t have to. In tech, the mantra "Move fast and break things" is well understood. However, in today's landscape, is "breaking things" really necessary?

Dan Rogers

Feature Flags

Nov 18

Using LaunchDarkly Feature Flags in a Contentful + React Application

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use LaunchDarkly feature flags to show and hide front-end features in a Contentful + React web application.

Tilde Thurium

Nov 14

LaunchDarkly for Developers now features hands-on workshops & short videos

We are excited to share that we’ve revamped LaunchDarkly for Developers training with an interactive, self-service workshop and shorter video lessons, so it’s faster to get up to speed on everything you need to know to uplevel your software release management skills.

Shabih Syed

Product Updates

Nov 13

LaunchDarkly now integrates with AWS PrivateLink

LaunchDarkly

Introducing new insights, integrations, and ways to manage releases at scale with LaunchDarkly

Today we’re happy to announce several new features that address these important issues that arise at enterprise scale, making it even easier to efficiently manage releases across your organization

Steve Zegalia

Introducing LaunchDarkly AI Configs (early access): release your next GenAI feature in hours, not weeks

Karishma Irani

Launch Week '24: Removing risk from every software release

LaunchDarkly believes the way most teams release software is just plain broken — a rush to ship features and nothing to do but hope for the best. And this challenge is only magnified when it comes to building and shipping AI applications or trying to do something truly novel for your customers. But what if there was a way to move fast without sacrificing quality or performance? And what if–even better–this could all happen automatically?

Claire Vo

Introducing Guarded Releases: confidently innovate with safer, smarter software deployments

Kellye King

Nov 15

LaunchDarkly on LaunchDarkly: how we guard releases to build trust and mitigate risk

The Fundamentals Engineering Team at LaunchDarkly is responsible for building and refining a shared platform of core capabilities across internal product engineering teams. They work closely with product engineers to develop impactful features and products faster, which benefit internal teams and our customers alike.

LaunchDarkly

Nov 08

Declutter your flags with automated flag archival checks in LaunchDarkly

We’re excited to introduce automated checks in LaunchDarkly to let you know when a flag is ready to be removed. That means that your team can more easily and proactively manage flag debt, contributing to a cleaner codebase and freeing up more time for building and shipping new products.

Steve Zegalia

Feature Flags

Nov 07

Email API showdown: testing Mailgun vs. Resend with LaunchDarkly feature flags

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use LaunchDarkly feature flags to toggle between 2 different email providers (Resend and Mailgun) in an ExpressJS application.

Tilde Thurium

Nov 05

Release management guide: what it is & why it matters

Jesse Sumrak

Oct 31

5 Strategies to De-Risk Software Releases in Retail & eCommerce

LaunchDarkly

Oct 28

Running a seasonally themed signup experiment with LaunchDarkly and ExpressJS

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to run an A/B experiment to give your signup flow some 🍁seasonally themed flavor ☠️, using LaunchDarkly and ExpressJS. All experiments should start with a hypothesis. Will changing the design to be a bit spooookier increase our conversion rate? Let’s find out!

Tilde Thurium