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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
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.
LaunchDarkly
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.
LaunchDarkly
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.
LaunchDarkly
Using LaunchDarkly in AWS Serverless
This article will cover how to get LaunchDarkly set up in Lambda and show you how to handle those aspects that are unique to serverless.
Brian Rinaldi and Alex Hardman
Using LaunchDarkly Feature Flags With GraphQL Applications
This post is about how we can start to layer in feature flags alongside a GraphQL server to make it more dynamic for developers.
Peter McCarron
7 Mistakes You’re Making with Feature Flags
Common missteps many make in their feature flag journey revealed, and how to avoid them.
Heidi Waterhouse
Decoupling Monoliths With Container Orchestration and Feature Flags
In this guide, we'll talk about monolith migration patterns and how they interact in hypothetical scenarios. You’ll also learn more about feature flags, container orchestration, and other useful tools to employ in a monolith migration.
Oscar Nevarez
Paramount Improves Developer Productivity 100X With LaunchDarkly
How Paramount went from deploying twice a month to multiple times per day.
Matt DeLaney
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.
Kevin Smith
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.
LaunchDarkly
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.
LaunchDarkly
This One Weird Trick to Trace Your Application at Scale for Free
Mike Zorn
"Build": The First Pillar of Feature Management
Matt DeLaney
How LaunchDarkly improves your customer experience
Edith Harbaugh
Giving Sales Control of Feature Flags
Ian Dugas
Implementing Feature Flags in an Angular E-commerce App
Justin Baker
All the Canaries Lived: It's Time to Adopt Progressive Delivery
Adam Zimman
LaunchDarkly's Evolution from Polling to Streaming
Dawn Parzych
Build vs. Buy: Have You Outgrown Your In-House Feature Flagging Tool?
How to determine if and when you should retire your homegrown feature flagging system.
Dawn Parzych
Calling All Speakers for Trajectory Conference 2020
Heidi Waterhouse
How to Mitigate Outages on Black Friday Next Year
Dawn Parzych
Go Serverless, Not Flagless: Implementing Feature Flags in Serverless Environments
Mike Zorn
Feature Flag-Driven Development
A broad and comprehensive overview of feature flag-driven development, from gradual rollouts to A/B testing.
Justin Baker
