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Best Practices
Sep 26
Are You Ready to Talk Ship With LaunchDarkly?

See what you missed at our Talkin' Ship workshop on unlocking modern software delivery. And don't miss what we're rolling out next!

Cody De Arkland

Best Practices
Aug 24
Setting the Right Contexts With LaunchDarkly

Learn how to deliver targeted experiences to customer segments based on any attribute or combination of attributes you can imagine.

Peter McCarron

Best Practices
Aug 08
Improving Government CX With Feature Flags

Sara Mazer

Best Practices
Aug 01
Connect (Almost) Anything to LaunchDarkly with Zapier

Brian Rinaldi

Best Practices
Jul 27
Webinar Recap: Zero Interruptions in Deployment

Every company wants to ship faster. To ship faster, you have to ship safer. Cody De Arkland of LaunchDarkly and Taiji Hagino of Datadog explain how it’s possible to go faster, more safely, and with less stress.

Ian Damianov

Best Practices
May 04
Silent Blockers That Slow Government IT Transformation

In this blog post, we’ll explore the silent blockers slowing down application modernization in the public sector and demonstrate how an enterprise approach to feature management can help your agency overcome them.

Sara Mazer

Best Practices
May 02
How General Motors Leverages Feature Flags to Ease Mobile App Complexities

A quick breakdown of GM's journey implementing feature flags for its mobile apps.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
Apr 25
How to Deploy and Manage APIs with LaunchDarkly

In this article, we’ll walk through some different ways you can use LaunchDarkly to roll out new APIs and version existing ones. 

Peter McCarron

Best Practices
Apr 11
How Near Instant Feature Flag Updates Ensure Your App Never Misses a Beat

The effect of changing a flag is nearly instantaneous on both the client and the server. In this post, we'll take a look at how all this works and then have a little bit of fun with it.

Brian Rinaldi

Best Practices
Apr 06
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.

Rebecca Dodd

Best Practices
Mar 23
5 Talks to Boost Experimentation with LaunchDarkly

If you're already using LaunchDarkly, you may not be familiar with the various ways our platform can help with your experiments. 

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
Mar 21
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. 

Rebecca Dodd

Best Practices
Mar 16
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

Rebecca Dodd

Best Practices
Mar 14
The Five Stages of Feature Flag Adoption

In this post, I want to lay out a common pattern I hear when I talk to developers about their adoption of feature flags that may help you in thinking about and planning your own.

Brian Rinaldi

Best Practices
Mar 07
How to Migrate a Database

In this post, you'll gain a high-level view of database migrations, common terminology, motivation for migrating databases, and common pitfalls along with their solutions.

Alex Hardman

Best Practices
Feb 07
Tips & Tricks for using Terraform with LaunchDarkly

In this article, we’ll walk through ways to help you get started and some important considerations when using the LaunchDarkly Terraform provider. 

Peter McCarron

Best Practices
Jan 26
Supercharge your Datadog RUM with Feature Flags

At LaunchDarkly, we use Datadog RUM software to monitor our application as customers interact with it. Because we were already using Datadog APM, adding client-side monitoring using Datadog RUM offers us a single pane of glass across our entire application.

Omar Ansari

Best Practices
Dec 06
How to Get the Most from Our Datadog Integrations

With more frequent deploys and releases, it becomes crucial to measure the impact of a feature deployment on your systems.

Munnawar Hashim

Best Practices
Dec 01
Using Feature Flags to Avoid Downtime During Migrations

How we used feature flags to safely migrate a high-throughput data processing system.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
Nov 29
Using LaunchDarkly in AWS Serverless

This article will cover how to get LaunchDarkly set up in Lambda and show you how to handle those aspects that are unique to serverless.

Brian Rinaldi and Alex Hardman

Best Practices
Nov 22
Trunk-Based Development with Kubernetes

This article will explore how you can power your trunk-based development strategies for microservices with Kubernetes.

LaunchDarkly

Best Practices
Nov 17
Using LaunchDarkly Feature Flags With GraphQL Applications

This post is about how we can start to layer in feature flags alongside a GraphQL server to make it more dynamic for developers.

Peter McCarron

Best Practices
Nov 08
Integrating Feature Flags in Angular v4

In this article, we’ll discuss how to eliminate risk and deliver value in your Angular project.

Arnold Trakhtenberg

Best Practices
Sep 06
Guest Post: Controlling Elixir Supervisors at Runtime with Feature Flags

We knew that we needed a way, at runtime, to start and stop these queue consumers. As we considered our options, feature flags seemed like a great way to control this starting and stopping process.

Brent Anderson