De-risked releases

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The New Software Release Lifecycle: Releasing, Measuring, and Iterating on Software in Production With LaunchDarkly

Steve Zegalia

Steve Zegalia is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at LaunchDarkly.

Blog9 min read

Separating "deploy" from "release" In the classic DevOps ‘infinity loop’ diagram, you’ll notice that ‘release’ comes before ‘deploy’. ‘Release’, in this sense, refers to creating a stable branch of software that can later be deployed. It does not refer to connecting software to end users. At LaunchDarkly, we view deploy and release differently.

Industry Insights, Best Practices, De-risked releases

Failure Recovery: Strategies for Recovering From Failed Deployments

Blog12 min read

The false feeling of safety Many of us have been there before. You wrap up all t...

Industry Insights, De-risked releases

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

Blog10 min read

A number of years ago, I worked for a large financial company as a software deve...

Industry Insights, Best Practices, De-risked releases

Past and upcoming events

Release Faster Without Breaking Things

[On-demand virtual session] Watch to learn how to de-risk and accelerate releases with LaunchDarkly's Release Assistant.

Releases - A Discussion with Varsity Tutors

[On-demand virtual session] Hear about how Varsity Tutors optimizes software releases with LaunchDarkly.

Assessing the Risk and Impact of Every Release

[On-demand virtual session] Learn how Release Guardian provides a proactive safety net for even the most complex product releases.

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Modernizing software delivery at Ally Financial

Blog8 min read

In digital banking, staying ahead of the curve is challenging but necessary. Ally Financia...

De-risked releases, Feature Flags, Industry Insights

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

Blog6 min read

In retail and eCommerce, software failures can translate directly into lost revenue and da...

De-risked releases, Progressive Delivery, Feature Flags

Mitigating signup spam spikes with LaunchDarkly and Twilio Verify in an ExpressJS app

Blog10 min read

Web and mobile applications that allow users to sign up must balance ease of onboarding wi...

De-risked releases, DevOps

Part 1: Keeping Up With The Pace Of GenAI Innovation

Blog4 min read

In this four-part blog series, we’ll cover how GenAI is transforming software delivery, th...

De-risked releases, Targeted experiences, Product experimentation

Upgrade your APIs safely with Progressive Rollouts in an ExpressJS Application

Blog7 min read

“I love tailing the logs and refreshing my release dashboard!” said no developer ever. Re...

De-risked releases, Migrations

Upgrade your APIs safely with Progressive Rollouts in a Python FastAPI Application

Blog7 min read

“I love tailing the logs and refreshing my release dashboard!” said no developer ever. Re...

De-risked releases, Migrations

Using LaunchDarkly to target different audience segments within your Python Application

Blog8 min read

Overview Everyone who uses your product has a unique set of hopes, dreams, goals, and aspi...

Experimentation, De-risked releases, Targeted experiences

Innovating Safely With Generative AI in Financial Services

Blog7 min read

A primer for software engineering leaders on de-risking, controlling, and optimizing AI ap...

Product experimentation, Targeted experiences, De-risked releases, Progressive Delivery, Industry Insights, Feature Flags, Best Practices

Creating customized user experiences using Express JS and LaunchDarkly segment targeting

Blog7 min read

Treating every user the same is risky when they may have different goals, dreams, desires,...

Feature Flags, De-risked releases

Quickly disable external API calls in your FastAPI application using FastAPI and LaunchDarkly kill switch flags

Blog9 min read

Kill switches are a type of feature flag that allows you to shut off features in your appl...

De-risked releases, Feature Flags

5 Strategies to De-Risk Software Releases in Financial Services

Blog8 min read

It only takes one bug In July, a software outage battered several industries across the gl...

Industry Insights, Feature Flags, Progressive Delivery, De-risked releases

Business in the front, party in the back: creating customized user experiences using Fastify JS and LaunchDarkly

Blog9 min read

Treating every user the same is risky when they may have different goals, dreams, desires,...

Experimentation, De-risked releases, Feature Flags