3 ways to end the misery of tech migrations

The pain of modernization

Adopting new cloud services, databases, and APIs is a constant in modern software delivery, but technology migration projects are expensive, time-consuming, and fraught with risk. A 2021 report from Gartner found that 32 percent of cloud initiatives fail. Why is modernization so painful?

• It's difficult to break migrations down into smaller chunks, which forces businesses to undertake risky, big-bang migrations.
• The prospect of exposing new back-end services to all users is scary due to the challenge of testing and monitoring the impact at a realistic volume and scale.
• Back-end errors can quickly tank customer experiences and SLAs and drive up costs.

These challenges deter organizations from migrating and modernizing legacy systems. But the risk of inaction is equally great, potentially resulting in the type of outages experienced by Southwest Airlines in the past year.1 Organizations need a safer, faster, more predictable way to evolve their tech stack to stay ahead of competition. 

LaunchDarkly lets organizations modernize technologies faster by introducing new application components in a gradual and controlled manner. In this guide, we'll explore how you can break migrations down into manageable pieces, monitor performance and business metrics to ensure migrations go as planned, and avoid negative customer impact by resolving errors immediately.