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When to Think About Technical Debt from Feature Flags

When it comes to feature flags, I’m often asked how you can make sure that adding them won’t result in accumulating even more technical debt. Forgetting to clean up code or remove a feature flag after it’s rolled out to 100% of users isn’t due to maliciousness or laziness.

Dawn Parzych

How to Get More from Our Slack Integration

Simple best practices to get more value from your emoji-filled LaunchDarkly notifications.

Kevin Smith

Flagging at the Edge: Combining LaunchDarkly with edge functions

In this post, we'll explore a couple of popular edge function solutions and see how integrating them with LaunchDarkly flags can allow for some truly powerful solutions.

Brian Rinaldi

Talking Relaxed, Simplified Release Processes with FullStory and SPS Commerce

"We were all excited. There was a buzz. People were excited to use it. It was almost like a ball rolling downhill.”

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Using LaunchDarkly in Automated Testing

Tali Friedman

Internal Documentation for External Results

Why spending more time on your internal technical documentation can become an enormous force-multiplier for your entire team.

Heidi Waterhouse

Elite Performance with Trunk-based Development

From the way that it compliments our internal rewards-based thought patterns, to its ability to support collaborative achievement of a flow state, trunk-based development supports a multitude of team goals. If done well, it can become the backbone to your development lifecycle.

Jessica Cregg

Primer: Launching Darkly with Amazon Web Services

When developer teams learn about LaunchDarkly, one of the first questions they ask is, “How can I use LaunchDarkly and AWS together?”

Cody De Arkland

Clear Skies in the Cloud with Feature Management

As CEO of LaunchDarkly, I love hearing about all use cases in which teams are applying feature management. As the bar for being successful in the cloud continues to rise, I’m happy that an increasing number of customers use LaunchDarkly as a way to accelerate their migration and modernization initiatives.

Edith Harbaugh

Launching Darkly with Python and a Star Wars API

In this post, we’re going to take a rapid fire look at bootstrapping a Python project and exploring feature flags and application delivery with LaunchDarkly.

Cody De Arkland

Three Common Use Cases for LaunchDarkly Integrations

LaunchDarkly provides a wide range of integrations to help solve problems within your organization, including integrated development environment (IDE) connectors, workflow management tools, and more.

Ember Stevens

What's So Great About Next.js?

Let's take a brief look at how Next.js has evolved and, in particular, how the rendering methods within Next.js have evolved.

Brian Rinaldi

A Beginners Guide to Feature Management for Federal Agencies

In this guide, you will learn how other agencies are already using feature management and how it might benefit your agency, especially your developers.

Sara Mazer

Feature-Driven Development: A Brief Overview

As with other Agile software development frameworks, the goal of feature-driven development is to iterate quickly to satisfy the needs of the customer.

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What Is Server-Side Testing & How Does It Work?

In this post, we’ll find out what server-side testing is, how it works, and what your team can expect from it.

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What Is Deployment Automation? Best Practices & How to Start

Deployment automation refers to a software deployment approach that allows organizations to increase their velocity by automating build processes, testing, and deployment workflows for developers. In other words, it allows organizations to release new features faster and more frequently.

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Release Testing 101: How to Get Started

Release testing aims to find and eliminate errors and bugs from a software release so that it can be released to users. Let’s dive in and explore several methods used to perform release testing.

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Orchestration vs. Automation in the Cloud: How to Use Both

Automation and orchestration sound similar at first but are, in fact, different.

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5 Tips to Optimize Software Release and Deployment Management

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10+ Test Environment Best Practices You Need to Know

Testing software changes is critical to increasing the odds of your code working properly when released to all users. But what are the best approaches to the testing process? And what are the most effective ways to maintain test environments? 

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What Is Continuous Testing? A Straightforward Introduction

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How to Prepare Your Organization for the Next Big Thing

In this article, we’ll talk about some of the reasons we run from change, and how we can alter our perspective to open the door to it in a positive way that can have massive implications for our organizations. 

Dawn Parzych

21 Things You Can Do With Feature Flags in 2021

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How Progressive Delivery Helps You Learn from Failures

Dawn Parzych