
Kevin Smith
Kevin is a technical marketing writer at LaunchDarkly and helps manage the blog you're reading. He believes in data, science, and side two of the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main St."
Stories by Kevin Smith
5 Reasons to Attend the Software Release Summit
In this post, we've got five reasons you should attend our Software Release Summit, which will be happening May 18 beginning at 9 a.m. PST.

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How Chronosphere Releases Features at Massive Cloud Native Scale
Chronosphere is a solution other companies look to in understanding when their systems are down, especially during a crisis. This means they need to have a high standard for reliability and security with every feature released.

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The Impact of Mass Layoffs on Software Development
Engineers share their thoughts on what happens when an organization makes drastic, immediate cuts to a development team.

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ICYMI: The Year in LaunchDarkly 2022
In this post, we'll share some of our highlights from the year in LaunchDarkly before we enter 2023.

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5 Takeaways from Galaxy Conference 2022
For a taste of some of the topics discussed with our customers at Galaxy, we've assembled this quick rundown of moments from various stops, in no particular order.

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Introducing the 2022 State of Feature Management
In this year's State of Feature Management, you'll learn why companies are investing in feature management, despite uncertain economic conditions.

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7 Ways to Think Like a High Performing Engineering Team from Gene Kim
Even if becoming a high-performing team is an aspirational goal at the moment, getting your team's collective brainpower focused in that direction is a good start.

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Report: Why Innovative Software Delivery Starts with Trust and Psychological Safety
When developers and engineers are held to strict standards and processes, they can feel too constrained and fearful of stepping out of line. For a larger organization, a laser focus on avoiding mistakes can impact everything from retention to the ability to create meaningful progress that separates their product from the competition.

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Tips & Tricks: How to Automate Percentage Rollouts in LaunchDarkly
In this post, we'll explain the super easy way to perform a percentage rollout, as well as a more manual way when you really want to get hands-on.

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Roll Up for the Galaxy Tour
From June through October, throughout the United States, we'll be visiting five cities—San Francisco, Atlanta, New York City, Austin, and Chicago—with the goal of improving both your use of both LaunchDarkly and the processes surrounding feature management.

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How to Get More from Our Slack Integration
Simple best practices to get more value from your emoji-filled LaunchDarkly notifications.

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ICYMI: The Year in LaunchDarkly
Since the end of a year tends to bring a lot of reflective moments, we wanted to quickly run down some of the stuff that happened around here in case you missed it.

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Overcoming the Fears of Perpetual App Modernization
The biggest risks that keep organizations from moving forward with large-scale initiatives, and how feature flags can make the process downright boring.

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Introducing the State of Feature Management
Check out the results from our survey of over 450 DevOps and software development professionals about how feature management is changing software development, how teams are using it to deploy code, and the overall benefits of adoption.

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Why We’re Paying You to Hack Us
One of the ways we’re helping make LaunchDarkly’s security stronger is with our new public bounty program, which we launched in January with HackerOne.

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Recap: Gene Kim’s Thoughts on DevOps in 2021
Highlights from a recent conversation our VP of Platform and Partnerships, Adam Zimman, had with author, researcher, and the founder of IT Revolution, Gene Kim.

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To Be Continuous: Game Changers and Product Clones
In episode 59 of "To Be Continuous," Edith and Paul talk about the economy of mobile gaming, corporate monopolies, the importance of monetization, and Pink Floyd.

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