Platform architecture

Global flag delivery architecture

Unrivaled speed, security, and performance. 

It starts with your application.

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LaunchDarkly’s SDKs embed directly within your application runtime. Whether frontend or backend, container or mobile, our SDKs leverage our flag delivery architecture to control feature releases consistently from anywhere around the world.

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real-time changes

Release or roll back any feature in 200ms

Our streaming architecture uses server-sent events (SSE) to deliver feature flag updates to all servers and clients in an environment within 200ms.

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Ready to release a new feature?

Turn on the feature flag and enable all clients to receive the change within 200ms.

Is a feature degrading system performance?

Disable the feature in near-real-time—compared to minutes or hours with alternatives—without rolling back your entire deployment.

Need to ship an urgent update on your biggest day of the year?

Ship it to every user instantly!

Global flag delivery

100+ global points of presence

Our flag delivery network combines a third-party CDN with LaunchDarkly’s distributed core architecture components to enable fast responses and consistent experiences.

Initialize within an application in 25ms

Release changes within 200ms

Deliver toplight experiences to every user, no matter where they are

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Big companies take on risk when adopting tools. But I don’t worry about functionality, reliability, or support with LaunchDarkly. It just works.

George Swan

Sr. Director, Build Platform ,
Autodesk

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Multi-region resilience

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LaunchDarkly’s architecture provides several layers of resilience across the platform to ensure your systems and clients stay operational at all times, even in the unlikely event of an issue with the LaunchDarkly service.

Our self-healing SDKs retrieve and cache flag values and targeting rules in memory. Your applications are always able to resolve flag values and evaluate rules, no matter the circumstances.

Ensuring availability at multiple layers:

Ensuring availability at multiple layers:

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Secure SDK connectivity

Private attributes

Deliver targeted experiences to customers based on attributes in your customer data without having to share that data with LaunchDarkly.

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Security certificates

LaunchDarkly complies with some of the strictest privacy and security standards to put your mind at ease: SOC II, FedRAMP, HIPAA, GDPR.

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Mobile privacy and security

Protect your users’ data with purpose-built client-side SDKs that neither download nor store any sensitive data.

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We've been able to roll out new features at a pace that would've been unheard of a couple of years ago.

Michael McKay

Principal Software Engineer, IBM