Stories by Rebecca Dodd
Galaxy Brain: Live Traffic Routing and Creating a Culture of Experimentation
As an on-demand delivery platform, Favor Delivery knows a thing or two about responding to real-world conditions in real-time. Here's how they're using LaunchDarkly to move faster.
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Webinar: Using LaunchDarkly Feature Flags in AWS Serverless
How do you separate deployments from releases when you don't manage the entire tech stack? Watch the webinar to discover how developers can integrate feature flags into the release of a serverless web application to get granular control over releases.
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Moving Faster Without Fear: Customer Panel From Software Release Summit
How do you deliver software at a high speed, with high velocity, and low risk? We discussed balancing risk with innovation with customers from BOK Financial and Datasite at the Software Release Summit.
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State of Software Releases: A Fireside Chat with Liz-Fong Jones
Liz Fong-Jones and John Kodumal discuss challenges, emerging trends, and how to foster elite engineering teams in 2023.
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How Hulu Seamlessly Launched a Major UI update to 39 Million Customers Using LaunchDarkly
Streaming service Hulu had outgrown its homebuilt flag system and wanted to move to a release process that was more scalable and safe.
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PowerSchool Modernizes its Legacy System with AWS and LaunchDarkly
PowerSchool relied on LaunchDarkly to update its platform and migrate to Amazon DynamoDB. And all of this had to happen while maintaining a consistent experience for the millions of students PowerSchool serves.
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Galaxy Brain: What Engineers and Pro Chefs Have in Common
We love hearing from LaunchDarkly customers, because we never know what great stories they’re going to gift us—from the image of a monkey flipping feature flags to what professional kitchens have to do with the old "build vs. buy" chestnut.
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Shift the Feedback Cycle Left With Feature Flags and Cloud Development Environments
If you’re waiting to use feature flags only once the code has actually been shipped, you’re missing a trick.
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What to Know Before Migrating Legacy, Monolithic, or Existing Applications to Microservices
Migrating your legacy code, monolith, or other existing app to a microservices architecture is a choice that’s highly dependent on the details and context of your organization's needs. With this guide, we hope to give you the background and tools necessary to decide for yourself if it’s the right move.
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Galaxy Brain: The Power of Targeting Via User Attributes (And More)
Why are targeting rules powerful? They abstract business logic away from your codebase, which means you don't have to redeploy code just to give a user access to a new integration or feature.
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Webinar: Beyond DORA Metrics
DORA metrics changed the way a lot of engineering organizations viewed their productivity, but there’s a risk in getting hung up on moving faster just for the sake of it.
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Tame the Dragon and Other Release Management Lessons
Today, we'll share a couple stories about making releases uneventful, even as your company is scaling out
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SRE vs. Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
Site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, and DevOps are all related concepts around optimizing and giving structure to different aspects of the software delivery and software deployment lifecycles.
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What Is a Software Release?
There are a few different types of releases, which we can delineate based on the purpose they serve, their scope, and impact on users.
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What Is a Canary Deployment?
A canary deployment is a controlled rollout strategy involving pushing out changes to a small subset of users first before releasing to the rest of the user base.
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What Is Platform Engineering?
In this post we’ll take a look at what platform engineering is, the benefits it can bring, and how it differs from DevOps and site reliability engineering.
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What Is DevOps? (And How To Set Your Organization up for DevOps Success)
In this guide, we’ll take a look at the origins of DevOps, including its predecessors, and explore what DevOps actually means in practice.
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The Role of the Release Manager in DevOps
DevOps and continuous delivery changed the game for release management, but there’s still value in the release manager’s position. We explore the changing role of release managers when much of their job has been automated away.
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