Blogs by Heidi Waterhouse

Stories by Heidi Waterhouse

Three Ways to Build Release Assurance into a Software Development Life Cycle

Release assurance is the state of knowing what version or variant of software a user has received, and what the effect has been. Here are three concrete actions to start building release assurance into software development life cycles.

Heidi Waterhouse

Feature Flags

Jul 28

7 Mistakes You’re Making with Feature Flags

Common missteps many make in their feature flag journey revealed, and how to avoid them.

Heidi Waterhouse

Best Practices

Jan 11

Internal Documentation for External Results

Why spending more time on your internal technical documentation can become an enormous force-multiplier for your entire team.

Heidi Waterhouse

Industry Insights

Oct 04

Technical Debt: Why We Take It On and How We Pay It Off

Early debt can be almost invisible, but will always eventually turn into irreparable smithereens scattered across the codebase.

Heidi Waterhouse

Industry Insights

Aug 03

Catch the New Wave

Forrester has named us as a leader in their New Wave report on Feature Management and Experimentation.

Heidi Waterhouse

Galaxy

Apr 13

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

Galaxy

Apr 01

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

Developer productivity

Mar 18

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

Galaxy

Feb 11