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7 ways your DIY feature flag solution is slowing you down

Sure, you can build your own feature flag system. But you probably shouldn't. Here are seven compelling reasons why you should buy, not build.

Adam Lobb

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Feature Flags
Nov 04
Join us at AWS re:Invent 2025

Visit us at booth #1339!

Neha Julka

Experimentation
Nov 04
New Experimentation tools for PMs who test, learn, and move fast

Test, learn, and ship faster with new Experimentation tools.

Allison Rogers

AI
Oct 31
Delivering adaptive AI with LaunchDarkly and Snowflake Cortex

LaunchDarkly & Snowflake enable AI delivery with real-time config and runtime safety.

Neha Julka

Feature Flags
Oct 30
Less clutter, more control: Manage flag permissions at scale

Preset Role Scope and Flag Lifecycle Settings can help you issue cleaner, faster releases.

Bhargav Brahmbhatt

AI
Oct 30
Understanding AI behavior: LLM observability in AI Configs

Get deeper visibility into model behavior and impact with LLM observability.

Kelvin Yap

Experimentation
Oct 30
The Metrics glow-up: Smoother, smarter, simpler

Experience a faster, simpler way to build, manage, and trust your metrics.

Sruthy Kumar

AI
Oct 30
Prompt Engineering Best Practices

Poorly written prompts can throw entire AI projects off track.

LaunchDarkly

Oct 28
Our October 20 Service Disruption: What Happened, What We Learned and How We’re Improving

Sonesh Surana

Feature Flags
Oct 27
Accelerating release safety with LaunchDarkly Vega and GitHub

Using Vega and GitHub together increases your release control plane.

Neha Julka

Experimentation
Oct 23
Multiple Multi-Armed Bandits

Run multiple MABs on one flag to optimize experiences in parallel.

Scott Shindeldecker

Experimentation
Oct 17
Dig deeper into the data powering your charts

Explore the data behind your charts to validate results and make informed decisions

Neha Julka

Feature Flags
Oct 08
The developer's guide to free feature flagging services

Feature flags let you deploy code safely, test in production, and roll back instantly.

Jesse Sumrak

Experimentation
Oct 06
How to learn more from the features you ship

Turn every feature into a chance to learn.

Allison Rogers

Risk mitigation
Sep 25
Self-healing software with release observability

Ship faster, sleep easier, and catch bugs before your customers do.

Kellye King

Experimentation
Sep 25
Data Export: Now available for BigQuery and Databricks

Export to BigQuery and Databricks in a few clicks.

Allison Rogers

Experimentation
Sep 17
The ecommerce metrics that turn browsers into buyers

Identify the lifecycle metrics that tie customer actions directly to revenue, loyalty, and long-term growth.

Neha Julka

Developer productivity
Sep 15
Configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector for AWS Firehose

Vadim Korolik

Developer productivity
Sep 15
How we built logging as a service with Clickhouse

Vadim Korolik

AI
Sep 10
LLM RAG Tutorial: How to Build a Reliable Retrieval Pipeline

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) integrates contextual information into LLMs.

LaunchDarkly

Experimentation
Sep 09
Mastering product-centric delivery: accelerating outcomes with feature management and experimentation

Deliver like a product team by moving quickly, testing often, and measuring what works.

Allison Rogers

Risk mitigation
Sep 03
HBR: Why modern software delivery needs a new risk playbook

Kellye King

AI
Sep 02
Introducing agents, trends, and approvals for AI Configs

Build agent-based workflows, monitor AI behavior, and ship with more control.

Kirsten Ealy

Developer productivity
Aug 28
Releasing, measuring, and improving in real time

Close the loop between shipping features and seeing results.

Neha Julka

Experimentation
Aug 21
Less clutter, more insight: Slice metrics from one event

LaunchDarkly now supports filters for Custom Metric Events.

Eric Wang

LaunchDarkly Tops G2 Grid for Feature Management

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