LaunchDarkly in China and Pakistan

Overview

Some customers and end users in a limited list of countries have had difficulty maintaining a persistent connection to LaunchDarkly. The affected countries are China and Pakistan.

While LaunchDarkly is a product with global reach, inconsistencies between the internet services of different countries can make it difficult to predict where we might have outages. Customers in China and Pakistan have reported difficulty maintaining a connection to LaunchDarkly.

We offer these customers the following alternatives to a conventional LaunchDarkly process.

Remediation options

There are two options for improving performance if you’re using LaunchDarkly in China or Pakistan: bootstrapping your SDK, or creating a Relay Proxy.

Bootstrap your SDK

The pros and cons of bootstrapping include:

• Pros: This is quick and easy to do, and will reduce startup time to near zero.
• Cons: If you bootstrap from local storage, end users might initially receive outdated flag variations. New variation updates will still suffer from inconsistent performance.

Create a Relay Proxy

The pros and cons of using the Relay Proxy include:

• Pros: This may be able to serve your clients much faster.
• Cons: This is much more complicated to set up than bootstrapping.

To learn more, read The Relay Proxy.