
Dawn Parzych
Dawn is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly where she uses her storytelling prowess to write and speak about the intersection of technology and psychology. She enjoys helping people be more successful at work and in life.
Stories by Dawn Parzych
Build vs. Buy: 11 Tips for Migrating to LaunchDarkly
In this final post in our Build vs Buy series, we'll focus on guidance and tips on conducting a migration from a homegrown or open-source solution (OSS) to LaunchDarkly.

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When to Think About Technical Debt from Feature Flags
When it comes to feature flags, I’m often asked how you can make sure that adding them won’t result in accumulating even more technical debt. Forgetting to clean up code or remove a feature flag after it’s rolled out to 100% of users isn’t due to maliciousness or laziness.

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Your Reading Recommendations from Trajectory Attendees
To extend the learning opportunities at this year’s Trajectory, we have attendees the option to share with us a book they would recommend.

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Launching with Trajectory this November
In this year's entirely virtual event, we'll be celebrating the people working to build better software, teams, and processes, all at pace while striving to eliminate risk.

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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.

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Call for Papers: Trajectory 2021

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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.

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4 Tech Jobs for People Who Don't Code
There are many roles in tech for people who aren't engineers.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Valentine’s Day Poems, Deployed Just for You
Please enjoy these feature management poems written by some of our team members. May these bring a smile, or maybe a cringe, to your face today.

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21 Things You Can Do With Feature Flags in 2021

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How Progressive Delivery Helps You Learn from Failures

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Lessons from 2020 for the Shifting Landscape of Software Delivery

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Building better software with the scientific method

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AWS re:Invent Release and Deploy Watch List

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5 ways organizations can lean into failure and transform it into success

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Do You Need Data Export?

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Introducing #ToggleTalk

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7 Feature Flag Best Practices for Short-Term and Permanent Flags
Feature flags, sometimes called feature toggles, are a standard practice for many software development teams. We often are asked what are feature flag best practices? The answer to that as with most questions is “it depends”

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LaunchDarkly's Evolution from Polling to Streaming

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Build vs. Buy: Have You Outgrown Your In-House Feature Flagging Tool?
How to determine if and when you should retire your homegrown feature flagging system.

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How to Mitigate Outages on Black Friday Next Year

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11 Tips for Migrating to LaunchDarkly

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10 capabilities developers need in a feature flagging platform

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Deploying LaunchDarkly with Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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How to Manage Entitlements with Feature Flags

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#ToggleTalk 3: Resiliency

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Take Your Child to Work Day: Remote Edition

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Trajectory: The Reading List

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#ToggleTalk 2: Productivity

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Trajectory: Sponsor Highlights

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Trajectory Nano Series Takeaways: “Making Releases Boring in the Enterprise”

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#ToggleTalk 1: My First Flag

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The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things

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Trajectory: Reaching Escape Velocity

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Questions to Ask of your SaaS Provider

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Running Front-End Experiments

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Software Feature Experimentation Tips

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What is a Developer Advocate and Why I Became One

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Using Feature Flags During Incident Management

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Feature Flags Best Practices: Release Management

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Operational Feature Flags Best Practices

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Nine Experimentation Best Practices

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