
Brian Rinaldi
Brian Rinaldi is a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly with over 20 years experience as a developer for the web. Brian is actively involved in the community running developer meetups via CFE.dev and Orlando Devs. He's the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and co-editor of Mobile Dev Weekly and co-author of The Jamstack Book from Manning.
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Modern DevOps: The Shift to Operating Continuously

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5 Ways LaunchDarkly Outshines DIY Feature Flags

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Beta testing programs: everything you need to know
In this article, we'll look at what beta testing involves, the benefits it can offer and how you can implement it within your organization.

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Targeted experiences with LaunchDarkly and Amazon Cognito

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A beginner's guide to targeting with feature flags
Learn how to use feature flags and LaunchDarkly's targeting engine to deliver targeted experiences to any user, thing, or combination of users and things.

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Managing Entitlements in LaunchDarkly
An in-depth guide for software engineers on how to use feature flags and targeting in LaunchDarkly to manage software feature entitlements.

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Connect (Almost) Anything to LaunchDarkly with Zapier

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How Near Instant Feature Flag Updates Ensure Your App Never Misses a Beat
The effect of changing a flag is nearly instantaneous on both the client and the server. In this post, we'll take a look at how all this works and then have a little bit of fun with it.

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The Five Stages of Feature Flag Adoption
In this post, I want to lay out a common pattern I hear when I talk to developers about their adoption of feature flags that may help you in thinking about and planning your own.

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Feature Flags: Beyond the Boolean
Regardless of which path you choose, to buy or to build, let's explore some of the cool things you can do beyond simple feature toggles with a feature management platform like LaunchDarkly.

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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.

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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.

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5 Ways Astro Makes Building Web Apps Better
In this post, I'll explore the innovations of Astro and how you can integrate LaunchDarkly within the application.

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Wrapping LaunchDarkly
Even though the SDKs are straightforward to use, you're still likely to encounter a number of situations where you may prefer to create your own custom wrapper around the API provided by the SDK.

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Managing Feature Flags in Visual Studio Code
In this post I will briefly explore LaunchDarkly's Visual Studio Code extension. We'll see how to get it set up and how to use it.

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Getting Started with Svelte and LaunchDarkly
Since Svelte is just JavaScript, you don't need any framework-specific libraries to use it with LaunchDarkly – you can leverage the existing JavaScript libraries. Let's see how.

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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.

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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.

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What's So Great About Next.js?
Let's take a brief look at how Next.js has evolved and, in particular, how the rendering methods within Next.js have evolved.

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What Are Feature Flags?
Feature flags let you enable or disable a feature without modifying source code or redeploying.

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