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A beginner's guide to targeting with feature flags
Learn how to use feature flags and LaunchDarkly's targeting engine to deliver targeted experiences to any user, thing, or combination of users and things.

Brian Rinaldi
5 Reasons You Can't Miss Galaxy '23
Discover the next frontier of DevOps at LaunchDarkly's Galaxy 2023 conference. Don't miss it, register now!

Jenna Bilotta
Are You Ready to Talk Ship With LaunchDarkly?
See what you missed at our Talkin' Ship workshop on unlocking modern software delivery. And don't miss what we're rolling out next!

Cody De Arkland
Why 2024 Is the Year Tech Leaders Are Investing in Feature Management
In its 2023 Hype Cycleâ„¢ for Agile and DevOps, Gartner recognized the growing importance of feature management in modern organizations.

Jenna Bilotta
Snowflake Summit Recap
LaunchDarkly recently became an official Snowflake Marketplace partner, and for the first time, our team attended Snowflake Summit. Read our main takeaways.

Doug Gould
Moving Faster Without Fear: Customer Panel From Software Release Summit
How do you deliver software at a high speed, with high velocity, and low risk? We discussed balancing risk with innovation with customers from BOK Financial and Datasite at the Software Release Summit.

Rebecca Dodd
How Hulu Seamlessly Launched a Major UI update to 39 Million Customers Using LaunchDarkly
Streaming service Hulu had outgrown its homebuilt flag system and wanted to move to a release process that was more scalable and safe.Â

Rebecca Dodd
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.Â

Kevin Smith
Galaxy Brain: What Engineers and Pro Chefs Have in Common
We love hearing from LaunchDarkly customers, because we never know what great stories they’re going to gift us—from the image of a monkey flipping feature flags to what professional kitchens have to do with the old "build vs. buy" chestnut.

Rebecca Dodd
Shift the Feedback Cycle Left With Feature Flags and Cloud Development Environments
If you’re waiting to use feature flags only once the code has actually been shipped, you’re missing a trick.Â

Rebecca Dodd
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.

LaunchDarkly
AWS re:Invent 2022 re:Capped
Let's catch you up on some of what you missed and how you can still dive in.

Alex Hardman
How to Get the Most from Our Datadog Integrations
With more frequent deploys and releases, it becomes crucial to measure the impact of a feature deployment on your systems.

Munnawar Hashim
Introducing the LaunchDarkly Vue SDK
We're excited to share that now, thanks to the release of our new Vue SDK, it's never been easier to launch darkly with a Vue app.

Alex Hardman
Technical Debt: Why We Take It On and How We Pay It Off
Early debt can be almost invisible, but will always eventually turn into irreparable smithereens scattered across the codebase.Â

Heidi Waterhouse
Guest Post: Controlling Elixir Supervisors at Runtime with Feature Flags
We knew that we needed a way, at runtime, to start and stop these queue consumers. As we considered our options, feature flags seemed like a great way to control this starting and stopping process.

Brent Anderson
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.

LaunchDarkly
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).

LaunchDarkly
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.

LaunchDarkly
Using LaunchDarkly in a Kubernetes WorldÂ
In this post, we're going to take a look at how Kubernetes and LaunchDarkly solve very different problems from each other while living in the same realm that gets applications in front of users quicker and more reliably.

Cody De Arkland
Elite Performance with Trunk-based Development
From the way that it compliments our internal rewards-based thought patterns, to its ability to support collaborative achievement of a flow state, trunk-based development supports a multitude of team goals. If done well, it can become the backbone to your development lifecycle.

Jessica Cregg