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6 Kubernetes deployment strategies (with sample code)

Jesse Sumrak

Introducing new insights, integrations, and ways to manage releases at scale with LaunchDarkly

Today we’re happy to announce several new features that address these important issues that arise at enterprise scale, making it even easier to efficiently manage releases across your organization

Steve Zegalia

Declutter your flags with automated flag archival checks in LaunchDarkly

We’re excited to introduce automated checks in LaunchDarkly to let you know when a flag is ready to be removed. That means that your team can more easily and proactively manage flag debt, contributing to a cleaner codebase and freeing up more time for building and shipping new products. 

Steve Zegalia

Release management guide: what it is & why it matters

Jesse Sumrak

Building a Dynamic Email Personalization System with Resend, LaunchDarkly, and SQLite

In this guide, we'll build a dynamic email marketing system that personalizes emails for different user segments. We'll use Resend to send emails, LaunchDarkly to control which users receive customized content using feature flags, and SQLite to store and manage user data. We'll also use python-dotenv to securely manage our environment variables, such as API keys.

Amit Jotwani

Change Failure Rate: What It Is & How to Measure

Jesse Sumrak

Deployment Frequency: What It Is and How to Increase It

Jesse Sumrak

Ultimate Guide to CI/CD Best Practices to Streamline DevOps

Jesse Sumrak

DevOps vs. CI/CD: Complete Guide to Better Software Delivery

Jesse Sumrak

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

LaunchDarkly

Guide to software release versioning best practices

Erin Mikail Staples

Why Decouple Deployments From Releases?

Peter McCarron

What Are Feature Flags?

Feature flags allow you to enable or disable a feature without modifying source code or requiring a redeploy.

Brian Rinaldi

3 Best Practices For Zero-Downtime Database Migrations

Paul Wright

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. 

LaunchDarkly

Feature flag considerations in a microservice architecture

In this article, you’ll learn more about feature flags and the situations in which they can help you. You’ll also see how they can be used to help you take granular control of your microservices, enabling you to test new features easily.

James Konik

What Is a Software Release?

There are a few different types of releases, which we can delineate based on the purpose they serve, their scope, and impact on users.

Rebecca Dodd

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.

LaunchDarkly

Feature Toggle vs Feature Flag: Is There a Difference?

The evolution of feature toggles to feature flags and what it holds for the future of software development.

Jesse Sumrak

Blue-green deployment 101: how to reduce deployment risk

A blue-green deployment is an application release strategy for safely updating apps in production with no downtime.

LaunchDarkly

Feature Flags: Beyond the Boolean

Regardless of which path you choose, to buy or to build, let's explore some of the cool things you can do beyond simple feature toggles with a feature management platform like LaunchDarkly.

Brian Rinaldi

Feature Flag Testing—Strategies & Example Tests

In this post, we will discuss some of the challenges with testing in a world of feature flags and provide some recommendations for how to address these challenges.

Lev Lazinskiy

Pros and Cons: Cloud Deployment Models

Whether you're mulling a migration or considering the benefits of the one you're using now, this article examines the benefits and downsides of various deployment models in terms of overall offerings, as well as security and cost.

Harshil Patel

Release management 101: how to build your process

This article will explore the goals and benefits of the release management process and strategies for implementing that process in organizations.

Allan MacGregor