LaunchDarkly | 2024 DEVIES Award | Enterprise Development and Integration Solutions

LaunchDarkly took home this year’s DEVIES Award for Best Enterprise Development and Integration Solutions during DeveloperWeek 2024 held in Oakland, Ca. The 12th annual DEVIES Awards showcase the very best in design, engineering, and innovation within the developer technology sector. These awards span 31 diverse categories and celebrate individuals and teams who are pushing the boundaries of technological advancements. The independent, industry-leading DevNetwork Advisory Board selects winners from hundreds of nominees. LaunchDarkly previously won Best Innovation in Enterprise Solutions in 2022.

Focus on enterprise development teams

LaunchDarkly enables teams to focus on shipping software faster, without compromising on safety by using feature flags as a control point in code. These feature flags allow teams to progressively roll changes out, or disable problem code instantly if there's a problem. This control enables engineering teams across organizations to release features confidently, knowing they can manage every stage of the software release process, all without disrupting the user experience.

The platform is hyper-focused on delivering business value to enterprise development teams - without creating additional developer friction. The platform offers a unique workflow automation engine, release assistant, that allows teams to standardize release best practices across the entire organization. Engineering teams can define and implement consistent release processes through approvals, governance, and proactive monitoring. This enables organizations to increase their velocity of software releases, while limiting their risk and exposure.

“Enterprise teams are under a unique challenge right now to innovate in their software faster, but are still feeling the pressure of keeping outages short and risk down” said LaunchDarkly Director of Developer Experience Cody De Arkland. “Software development is complex - and things like AI are introducing a lot of new considerations. We need more platforms like LaunchDarkly that allow teams to iterate on their software at runtime, build more interesting experiments, and create better consistency but without making engineering teams jobs harder than they already are. ”

LaunchDarkly is trusted by leading enterprise organizations, including 130 of the Fortune 500 and 5 of the top 8 health insurers in the U.S. A few prominent customers include Atlassian, Vodafone, and Ally Bank.

LaunchDarkly — by the numbers

Over the years, businesses have experienced significant ROI by leveraging LaunchDarkly’s feature management platform. The data shows a clear connection between the software solution and business performance.

9X increase in deployment frequency
$3.2M annual ROI
27% decrease in time to release new features
$2.4M per year in operational cost savings

Above data comes from State of FeatureManagement 2022 and LaunchDarkly customer survey

Customers, Partners also take home DEVIES

Multi-year DEVIES Award winner IBM took home the 2024 prize for Best Innovation in Blockchain, CryptoCurrency, and Web3. LaunchDarkly partnered with IBM Kubernetes Service team to help streamline its deployment process. IBM Cloud™ Kubernetes Service is a managed container service for the rapid delivery of applications that can bind to advanced services like IBM Watson® and blockchain.

Prior to implementing LaunchDarkly, it took IBM Kubernetes three to six months to deliver added features. Now, they are able to deliver those features to cloud users within weeks, rather than months or quarters. They’ve gone from deploying twice a week to 100+ times a day. You can read the full case study here.

LaunchDarkly also celebrates partners Honeycomb, JetBrains, GitLabs, CircleCi, and Fastly for being recognized at this year’s DEVIES Awards. The LaunchDarkly-Honeycomb integration helps teams diagnose problems by sending flag events to Honeycomb. With LaunchDarkly and Fastly, the Instant Purge capability immediately stops delivering cached versions of that content and starts serving fresh content as soon as a customer issues a purge request, via either the Fastly control panel or an API call. Read more about deployment automation tools.

“Steadfast in our mission”

“We’re thrilled that the DEVIES gave us this award,” De Arkland reflects. “We’re committed to empowering teams to build their best software, without the risks that usually come from moving faster. If we’re giving engineering teams their nights and weekends back, because they can ship without worrying about what might go wrong — we’re doing our job right! Thank you to Developer Week and the DEVIES Award committee for this incredible honor, and thank you to our customers for trusting us to be their partner on this journey.”

If we’re giving engineering teams their nights and weekends back, because they can ship without worrying about what might go wrong — we’re doing our job right!

Want to learn more about LaunchDarkly?

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