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Cody De Arkland

Cody is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at LaunchDarkly where he focuses on helping builders learn and use the LaunchDarkly platform. He loves exploring and experimenting with technology and sharing what he finds with the community. He can often be found on Twitter (@codydearkland) sharing tech, BBQ, or his dog - not in that order.

Stories by Cody De Arkland

AI
Dec 11
AI Development With LaunchDarkly: Release, Measure, and Iterate

Use LaunchDarkly to rapidly deliver generative AI (GenAI) functionality into your applications without compromising safety.

Cody De Arkland

Risk mitigation
Nov 03
Failure Recovery: Strategies for Recovering From Failed Deployments

Cody De Arkland

Industry Insights
Oct 18
Manufacturing Feature Flags: Build vs. Buy...and Duct Tape

Get a fresh perspective on building versus buying an enterprise-grade feature management system.

Cody De Arkland

Best Practices
Sep 26
Are You Ready to Talk Ship With LaunchDarkly?

See what you missed at our Talkin' Ship workshop on unlocking modern software delivery. And don't miss what we're rolling out next!

Cody De Arkland

AI
Jan 19
OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Lowering the Bar for “Code”

Imagine my surprise when I could feed ChatGPT prompts involving LaunchDarkly and frameworks/languages I commonly use (like Python, Flask, and React), and it returned pretty solid examples back!

Cody De Arkland

Trajectory
Aug 30
We Want to Hear Your Modernization Stories at Trajectory 2022

Trajectory is our opportunity to bring together our customers, our team, and our community to present talks related not just to the world of “feature management,” but also to the wide world of software development. 

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Best Practices
May 03
How We Toggle in LaunchDarkly

In this blog post, we're going to step through a few of the most common ways we see people extend their toggling beyond just hitting the switch in the UI.

Cody De Arkland

Industry Insights
Apr 07
Using LaunchDarkly in a Kubernetes World 

In this post, we're going to take a look at how Kubernetes and LaunchDarkly solve very different problems from each other while living in the same realm that gets applications in front of users quicker and more reliably.

Cody De Arkland

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

Product Updates
Nov 04
Evolving Global Flag Delivery - Flag Delivery at Edge

Recently, we moved significant portions of our flag evaluation tooling from our core LaunchDarkly infrastructure, out to the Content Delivery Network (CDN) layer of our architecture. We refer to this as Flag Delivery at Edge, and it is currently live throughout our LaunchDarkly Flag Delivery Network.

Cody De Arkland

Best Practices
Oct 26
Launching Darkly with Python and a Star Wars API

In this post, we’re going to take a rapid fire look at bootstrapping a Python project and exploring feature flags and application delivery with LaunchDarkly.

Cody De Arkland

Industry Insights
Sep 29
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