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Nov 13

LaunchDarkly now integrates with AWS PrivateLink

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Nov 15

LaunchDarkly on LaunchDarkly: how we guard releases to build trust and mitigate risk

The Fundamentals Engineering Team at LaunchDarkly is responsible for building and refining a shared platform of core capabilities across internal product engineering teams. They work closely with product engineers to develop impactful features and products faster, which benefit internal teams and our customers alike.

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Oct 31

5 Strategies to De-Risk Software Releases in Retail & eCommerce

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Experimentation

Oct 02

Experimentation in financial services: 5 ways to increase customer engagement

Experimentation goes beyond personalization—it’s also about maximizing efficiency and reducing guesswork.

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Jul 30

On Code Coverage in Software Testing

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May 28

Smoke Signals: A Comprehensive Guide to Smoke Testing in Software Development

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Mar 15

6 Deployment Strategies (and How to Choose the Best for You)

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Feb 23

LaunchDarkly wins 2024 DEVIES Award for Enterprise Development and Integration Solutions

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Dec 01

AWS re:Invent '23 Recap: GenAI, Safe Migrations, and Modern DevOps

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Nov 29

Don't Ship Software on Weekends Ever Again. Here's the Secret

A look at the culture, process, and technology changes necessary for rapid software delivery.

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Oct 31

The Next DevOps Frontier: How 5 Leading Companies Ship Software Faster

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May 11

How Naviance Unlocked Its Monolith to Migrate with Confidence

It's a familiar story. The success and growth of a company eventually created a problem: while it started with a small monolithic architecture, as things expanded, a single codebase maintained and enhanced successfully by a handful of teams simply could not scale to concurrent work by hundreds of engineers.

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May 02

How General Motors Leverages Feature Flags to Ease Mobile App Complexities

A quick breakdown of GM's journey implementing feature flags for its mobile apps.

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General

Apr 27

Taking Our Experimentation Capabilities to the Next Level with Technology Partners

Today, we are excited to expand the capabilities of our Experimentation product with the launch of our Experimentation Track within the Technology Partner Program.

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Mar 28

What is a staging environment?

A proper staging environment can catch most problems related to your code before it goes live. So, let’s talk about it.

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Mar 23

5 Talks to Boost Experimentation with LaunchDarkly

If you're already using LaunchDarkly, you may not be familiar with the various ways our platform can help with your experiments.

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Mar 09

7 Benefits of Containerization

Let’s walk through what containerization means these days, how it works, and how it can benefit your workloads and application development.

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Feb 23

AWS Re:Invent 2022 Recap: Building and Operating at Scale with Feature Management

Titled "Building and Operating at Scale with Feature Management," the session emphasized that feature management isn't just about showing or hiding things from end users; it's actually a way of evolving your software stack safely.

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Feb 16

AWS Re:Invent Session Recap: Observability, Security, and Feature Management

The session covered how threats have evolved, new detection methods, and how feature flags can play a crucial role in both detecting and responding to attacks in highly innovative (and sometimes entertaining) ways.

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Feature Flags

Feb 14

Feature Flagging for SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Teams

In this article, you'll take a look at what feature flags are and how they can benefit site reliability engineers, specifically, in their quest to keep an application up and running.

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Feb 09

Galaxy Brain: Improving Progressive Delivery Through Observability

Teams are delivering software faster than ever, but speed is no substitute for quality.

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Feature Flags

Jan 03

Coordinating Feature Flags Across Microservices

To better understand the importance of proper feature management, we’ll explore some common difficulties that arise when coordinating feature flags across microservices.

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Jan 17

Introducing LaunchDarkly Professional Services

We’re excited to announce the launch of Professional Services: a dedicated part of our organization that will aid you by offering expertise in your feature flag adoption journey.

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Jan 12

What Is a Production Environment?

A production environment is a real-time setting where the latest versions of software, products, or updates are pushed into live, usable operation for the intended end users.

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Dec 06

What Is a Kill Switch in Software Development?

The concept of a kill switch is not confined to just apps and software development. In fact, the term predates anything having to do with a computer or code.

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Nov 22

Trunk-Based Development with Kubernetes

This article will explore how you can power your trunk-based development strategies for microservices with Kubernetes.

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Nov 15

7 Reasons Percentage Rollouts Reduce Deployment Risk

Deploying new features is often risky business, especially in a high-volume production environment. A bad bug can take down your entire app or affect your user base.

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Oct 25

Command Your Distributed Architecture Chaos with LaunchDarkly for Compass

Learn about the motivation behind Compass and the new integration with LaunchDarkly that debuted earlier this year.

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Oct 06

Announcing LaunchDarkly Academy

Whether you’re new to feature flags, a LaunchDarkly customer already, or one of our partners, the academy will help you get up to speed with everything you need to know to control code with LaunchDarkly.

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Sep 13

Recap: Your Questions for Gene Kim Answered

Things shifted for our audience's Q&A session, exploring topics like the future of development, how authoring a book compares to writing software, and why it matters who you hang out with.

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Sep 13

What Do Customers Love About LaunchDarkly?

From boring deployments to increased speed to market, these are some of the benefits called out by LaunchDarkly customers at Life360 and Nestlé Purina at our customer roadshow, Galaxy.

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Sep 08

Summer 2022: Product Release Roundup

Wondering what’s new at LaunchDarkly? Check in each season for our release roundup and learn about updates, new capabilities, and expansions of our products.

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Aug 31

The Only Way Is Up: Feature Management Climbing Gartner’s Slope of Enlightenment

What we’re seeing with this latest Hype Cycle™ is the beginning of a shift in focus from feature management’s technical capabilities to the potential business impact.

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Aug 23

UML Deployment Diagrams Versus Entity-Relationship Diagrams

This article looks at two ways of representing systems using diagrams: Unified Modeling Language (UML) deployment diagrams, and entity-relationship diagrams (ERD).

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Jul 21

Explore Popular Git Branching Strategies & Free Resources

In this guide, you’ll learn why Git branching is so valuable and get introduced to different branching strategies that may fit your needs.

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Jun 21

Enabling Digital Transformation Through DevOps

This article will show how you can use DevOps to achieve digital transformation in your company.

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Jun 14

What is User Acceptance Testing?

In this post, we'll take a close look at the what, when, and who of UAT, and then how to execute it successfully in the real world.

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Jun 09

Blue-green vs. rolling deployments: pros, cons & implementation

Having an efficient and intelligent deployment pattern is integral for developing modern software. This article explores both blue-green and rolling deployments, their options, their benefits and challenges, and some tools that support both methods.

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Jun 07

Testing in Production with Kubernetes

Let’s explore how to safely and effectively test in production with Kubernetes.

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Jun 02

How to Keep Control of Your Project with Agile Release Planning

In this article, you’ll learn how you can control releases by using an agile release plan and how you can plan more frequent production releases by using feature flags.

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May 26

Feature-Driven Development vs. Test-Driven Development

In this post, we'll examine two popular Agile methodologies and outline their pros and cons.

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May 19

Reducing Risk in Your DevOps Pipeline

Let's take a look at some things that can go wrong—and how we can leverage our DevOps pipeline to make software production and delivery less risky.

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May 17

Feature Branching: A Guide to the Do's and Don'ts

Let’s explore what feature branching is, and why developers create feature branches. Then, we’ll share our experience of what works—and what doesn’t—to help you successfully implement feature branching in your DevOps processes.

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May 10

How We Deploy Relay Proxy at LaunchDarkly

We often get asked about how we use Relay Proxy at LaunchDarkly, and this post will do all the explaining.

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May 05

Tips & Tricks: When Not to Use LaunchDarkly Feature Flags

From email blasts to API secrets, here are some examples of when feature flags just aren't going to work for you.

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Apr 11

Spring '22 Product Release: Feature Management at Enterprise Scale

A quick rundown of recently-released functionality to help with your launches.

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Mar 31

Tips & Tricks: Searching for Flags Across Environments and Projects

Many of our users wonder about some of the ways you can search for feature flags across various environments within a project. It’s a common question—and there’s actually more than one way to do it.

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Mar 15

How to Pull Off a Database Migration With LaunchDarkly

Learn how to migrate safely using a gradual, reversible, and verifiable processes controlled with feature flags.

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Mar 03

Meeting People Where They Are: A Conversation with James Governor

In this "Fireside Chat" with Co-founder of RedMonk, James Governor, and Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at LaunchDarkly, Cody De Arkland, we follow the theme of meeting developers where they are–whether quite literally as companies consider bringing people back into the office, or more figuratively in terms of inclusivity and psychological safety.

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Dec 01

Using Feature Flags to Avoid Downtime During Migrations

How we used feature flags to safely migrate a high-throughput data processing system.

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Jan 25

Talking Relaxed, Simplified Release Processes with FullStory and SPS Commerce

"We were all excited. There was a buzz. People were excited to use it. It was almost like a ball rolling downhill.”

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Dec 16

Winter ‘21 Product Release: Reimagining the Last Mile of Continuous Delivery

In this post, we’ll recap some of our recent product announcements that are helping organizations transform their delivery processes at scale.

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Dec 14

LaunchDarkly Audit Shows Systems Unaffected by Log4j Vulnerability

LaunchDarkly prioritizes the security of our customers' data. That’s why last week, when researchers discovered a significant vulnerability in the widely-used Java library Log4j, the LaunchDarkly Security team conducted an immediate investigation to determine how the vulnerability impacted our systems.

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Sep 28

Galaxy Talk: Migrating from a Homegrown Feature Flags System to LaunchDarkly

In this talk from our user conference, Galaxy, Autodesk engineer Rick Riensche runs through the process as his team migrated from Flipper to LaunchDarkly, and dispenses advice for those thinking about making the jump.

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Sep 23

Fall ‘21 Product Release: Smarter Experimentation

In this post, we’ll talk about some of the latest enhancements we’ve made during our Fall ‘21 Product Release to ensure you can make informed decisions and confidently ship the best experience.

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Feature Flags

Sep 09

Why Use Feature Flags?

In this post, we’ll take a look at what feature flags are, when to use them, and why they make sense for large and small companies.

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Sep 02

Galaxy Talk: Maximize Your Use of LaunchDarkly

Six ways we use LaunchDarkly at LaunchDarkly.

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Aug 19

Using Feature Management to Drive Innovation in Regulated Industries

Recently, we hosted a brunch-and-learn event with customers that focused on feature management use cases and benefits. Let's jump into the highlights.

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Jul 06

Galaxy Talk: Supercharge Your Release Pipeline With These LaunchDarkly Configs

In this session from LaunchDarkly Galaxy, Caley Brock, a senior software engineer at VTS, talks about the process that helps her team ship faster and streamline testing.

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Jun 29

Summer '21 Product Release Roundup

Our Product Delivery team has been hard at work the past quarter shipping incredibly powerful new functionality. Let’s take a look at some of the key highlights.

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Jun 24

Customer Spotlight: KnowBe4 Standardizes IT Practices, Improves Engineering Output by 23%

The KnowBe4 team selected LaunchDarkly as their platform of choice based on its intuitive user interface, sophisticated user targeting, SDKs for all major languages, and trusted architecture to support availability SLAs.

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Jun 17

Galaxy Talks: Launching Darkly at Large Organizations

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Jun 15

Webinar Recap: Safe and Sensible - Deployment and Launch With Reduced Risks

If you're skeptical of how concepts like shipping faster and testing in production can actually improve your end result and create a safer overall release process, read on.

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Jun 10

Galaxy Talks: Feature Flags in Your Daily Workflows

In this talk, LaunchDarkly software engineer, Dan O'Brien, talks about the perils of losing focus, and how our platform wants to help enable your deep working sessions.

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Jun 03

Galaxy Talk: The Art of Shipping Broken Code

Learn how feature flags gave StockX the confidence to test out a new home page against an old one on the biggest shopping day of the year.

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Jun 01

Feature-Driven Development: A Brief Overview

As with other Agile software development frameworks, the goal of feature-driven development is to iterate quickly to satisfy the needs of the customer.

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May 25

What Is Server-Side Testing & How Does It Work?

In this post, we’ll find out what server-side testing is, how it works, and what your team can expect from it.

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May 20

Galaxy Talk: Fitness Functions and Flagging Conventions

In this talk from our recent user conference, Galaxy, Mark Burry, senior developer at iPipeline, recounts the journey his company embarked on with feature flags, and how it eventually found fitness functions and flagging conventions as best practices.

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May 18

What Is a Canary Release?

Performing a canary release helps improve your final release for end users ahead of a much larger rollout.

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Oct 04

5 cloud deployment models: which one is right for you?

Whenever you hear about the “cloud” or “cloud computing,” you think about computing resources that someone else manages. But that’s just one of the few cloud deployment models.

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May 11

What Is Deployment Automation? Best Practices & How to Start

Deployment automation refers to a software deployment approach that allows organizations to increase their velocity by automating build processes, testing, and deployment workflows for developers. In other words, it allows organizations to release new features faster and more frequently.

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May 06

Release Testing 101: How to Get Started

Release testing aims to find and eliminate errors and bugs from a software release so that it can be released to users. Let’s dive in and explore several methods used to perform release testing.

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May 04

Orchestration vs. Automation in the Cloud: How to Use Both

Automation and orchestration sound similar at first but are, in fact, different.

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Apr 22

5 Tips to Optimize Software Release and Deployment Management

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Apr 16

10+ Test Environment Best Practices You Need to Know

Testing software changes is critical to increasing the odds of your code working properly when released to all users. But what are the best approaches to the testing process? And what are the most effective ways to maintain test environments?

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Apr 14

Git Branching Strategies vs. Trunk-Based Development

This article will first review the benefits and shortcomings of several common Git branching strategies. Then, we’ll compare those to trunk-based development to learn how the latter solves those shortcomings and enables modern software delivery practices through feature flag management.

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Apr 08

Software Release Management: Strategies & Best Practices

Release management is the process of optimizing all stages of launching a software product or feature. As enterprise software delivery becomes faster and more complex, release management is essential to meet deadlines without sacrificing quality.

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Apr 06

Test environments 101: definition, types, and tests

This post explores test environments from the ground up. Not only will you learn what a test environment is, but you'll also discover how best to set up one in the era of continuous deployment. Then we'll discuss how best to manage them.

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