Your Flight Plan for Trajectory

The seasons are changing and we’re rolling closer to November which means that it is almost time for Trajectory! Now in its fourth year, Trajectory is LaunchDarkly’s annual conference that explores the future of feature management and application deployment strategies. 

The goal of this year's two day, virtual event—happening November 9 and 10— is to bring development, engineering, and product teams together to share stories and experiences in software delivery. You’ll hear from industry experts, learn about our upcoming roadmap, and have the opportunity to get hands-on with the product in our workshops.

If this is your first Trajectory, you may be curious about what to expect. This year's conference will focus on software modernization, and explore that topic through six core themes: 

• Building & Shipping Software: At our core, we at LaunchDarkly are focused on enabling developers to ship robust, innovative software with minimal roadblocks. You’ll hear discussions and best practices from users that have built custom development pipelines and testing frameworks for their code.
  
• Collaborating Across Teams: Scaling organizations introduces new complexities and challenges. How do you maintain agility and consistency without sacrificing performance or putting undue burdens on your development teams? 
  
• Experimentation: Deploying new application code is just step one in a larger deployment strategy. In order to measure the efficacy of changes you need to gather data, run tests against certain conditions, and set targets to measure success.
  
• Platform Engineering: Are you and your team responsible for standing up a shared service across multiple end user groups? This has been an emerging trend in the modern application world, but many have questions about how to stand these platforms up, create governance guardrails, and monitor application performance across teams.
  
• Release Management: What does deploying to production look like in your organization? Are engineers nervously awaiting the Friday night or weekend pages every time you release? Learn how others are overcoming these concerns and mitigating their release risk through automated processes.
  
• Lessons Learned: Come learn how others are navigating the application space and see how they’ve overcome certain pitfalls. Trajectory is all about engaging with the community and learning from the experiences of those who’ve walked various paths before.

In addition, we’ll also have keynote sessions featuring author and researcher Gene Kim, LaunchDarkly co-founder and CTO John Kodumal, and LaunchDarkly co-founder and CEO Edith Harbaugh.

We're also offering attendees a half-day Partner summit, where you can learn about the new and expansive ways partners can build, market, and sell alongside LaunchDarkly.

Looking for something more hands on? On the first day, we will be running a series of workshops designed to help you get a better understanding of how the LaunchDarkly platform works and advance your feature management knowledge:

• Flagging the Jamstack - Using Feature Flags with Netlify Workshop
  In this workshop, we'll set up a basic Jamstack project using a popular front-end framework that supports both SSR and SSG rendering. We'll see how to integrate flags into these pages on both the client-side and server-side. Finally, we'll see how we can connect Netlify and LaunchDarkly in order to ensure pages get re-rendered as needed based upon flag changes.
  
• Flight School Workshop (morning and evening sessions)
  In this two-hour workshop, you will explore platform readiness to verify that you have configured LaunchDarkly to start creating flags, you’ll learn how to set up an SDK, how to target users with flags, and how to configure a percentage rollout. Finally, you will get a review of all topics and information about LaunchDarkly best practices for implementation at the end of the session in our mission debrief.

For those who are new to LaunchDarkly, our Academy team will be running the getting started workshop to help you get up and running with your first feature flags. If you’re already familiar with the basics, you may want to check out the LaunchDarkly and Netlify workshop. 

While the Trajectory conference is free, our workshops run $399 per session, and space is limited so make sure to register soon. 

Registration is open and the event happens in just under a month, so go to the Trajectory website to secure your spot today. We look forward to seeing you on November 9 and 10!