Jessica Cregg
Jessica is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly where she speaks about change and writes about the human implications of engineering decisions. She loves discovering how things work, finding accurate analogies and working to improve equal and equitable representation within the technology industry.
Stories by Jessica Cregg
Blue-Green Deployment vs Canary Deployment: How to Determine Which Deployment Strategy is Right for You
Whether you’re launching a new version of your application or debuting brand new features within your production environment, this quick guide will help you weigh up the compatibility of each process and understand which rollout method will prove the most successful for your use case.

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How We Celebrated Black History Month 2022
In the spirit of Black Joy and health and wellness, LaunchDarkly spent February putting on a series of events to celebrate what it means to be Black in America in 2022.

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Microservices: How to Know If You're Ready
There's a whole host of reasons why adopting a microservices-led architecture could be right for you, but how do you know for sure? Here are a few indications on how to know if and when you're ready and some approaches to consider.

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Why DevOps Won’t Solve Everything
Excerpts of a conversation between Edith Harbaugh and Patrick Debois.

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Elite Performance with Trunk-based Development
From the way that it compliments our internal rewards-based thought patterns, to its ability to support collaborative achievement of a flow state, trunk-based development supports a multitude of team goals. If done well, it can become the backbone to your development lifecycle.

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Trajectory 2021: Day One Recap
Take a look at some of the talks from the first day of our third-annual Trajectory conference.

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So You Took Down Production - Now What?
When you take down prod, the point at which you see is already too late. Your name is on the deployment, the issue is live, and the clock is ticking.

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Bringing Order to Microservices
As microservices have grown from a niche methodology into a standard, they’ve also become more challenging to manage and govern.

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Four Fundamental Practices for Building a Culture of Experimentation
The following four fundamental practices are great steps that can help your team instill a culture of experimentation that uses failure to power its future successes.

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My Experience as a Career Switcher in Tech
Have you ever tried to write with your other hand? The non-dominant one? Your instincts are all off, and words that you produce look out of shape and unfamiliar. No matter how accustomed you are to an action, performing it in a different context can throw you completely off balance. I find that this is particularly true when you switch careers.

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