Latest Developer productivity posts

Detecting vaccine misinformation in a custom Bluesky feed, using LaunchDarkly and OpenAI

In this tutorial, you’ll create a Bluesky custom feed in Python that filters posts based on keywords. You’ll use an OpenAI model to do basic sentiment analysis on the posts, discarding the ones that are likely to be misinformation. Then you’ll wrap the LLM call in a LaunchDarkly feature flag so you can quickly enable it when misinformation surges.

Tilde Thurium

6 Kubernetes deployment strategies (with sample code)

Jesse Sumrak

Introducing new insights, integrations, and ways to manage releases at scale with LaunchDarkly

Today we’re happy to announce several new features that address these important issues that arise at enterprise scale, making it even easier to efficiently manage releases across your organization

Steve Zegalia

Declutter your flags with automated flag archival checks in LaunchDarkly

We’re excited to introduce automated checks in LaunchDarkly to let you know when a flag is ready to be removed. That means that your team can more easily and proactively manage flag debt, contributing to a cleaner codebase and freeing up more time for building and shipping new products. 

Steve Zegalia

Release management guide: what it is & why it matters

Jesse Sumrak

Building a Dynamic Email Personalization System with Resend, LaunchDarkly, and SQLite

In this guide, we'll build a dynamic email marketing system that personalizes emails for different user segments. We'll use Resend to send emails, LaunchDarkly to control which users receive customized content using feature flags, and SQLite to store and manage user data. We'll also use python-dotenv to securely manage our environment variables, such as API keys.

Amit Jotwani

Change failure rate: what it is & how to measure

Jesse Sumrak

Deployment Frequency: What It Is and How to Increase It

Jesse Sumrak

Ultimate Guide to CI/CD Best Practices to Streamline DevOps

Jesse Sumrak

DevOps vs. CI/CD: Complete Guide to Better Software Delivery

Jesse Sumrak

Smoke Signals: A Comprehensive Guide to Smoke Testing in Software Development

LaunchDarkly

Guide to software release versioning best practices

Erin Mikail Staples

5 best practices for getting started with LaunchDarkly

Set up your first project, choose an SDK, and start using feature flags.

Peter McCarron

Why Decouple Deployments From Releases?

Peter McCarron

3 Best Practices For Zero-Downtime Database Migrations

Paul Wright

What is a staging environment?

A proper staging environment can catch most problems related to your code before it goes live. So, let’s talk about it. 

LaunchDarkly

Feature flag considerations in a microservice architecture

In this article, you’ll learn more about feature flags and the situations in which they can help you. You’ll also see how they can be used to help you take granular control of your microservices, enabling you to test new features easily.

James Konik

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.

Rebecca Dodd

Feature Flags: Beyond the Boolean

Regardless of which path you choose, to buy or to build, let's explore some of the cool things you can do beyond simple feature toggles with a feature management platform like LaunchDarkly.

Brian Rinaldi

Pros and Cons: Cloud Deployment Models

Whether you're mulling a migration or considering the benefits of the one you're using now, this article examines the benefits and downsides of various deployment models in terms of overall offerings, as well as security and cost.

Harshil Patel

Release management 101: how to build your process

This article will explore the goals and benefits of the release management process and strategies for implementing that process in organizations.

Allan MacGregor

Blue-green vs. rolling deployments: pros, cons & implementation

Having an efficient and intelligent deployment pattern is integral for developing modern software. This article explores both blue-green and rolling deployments, their options, their benefits and challenges, and some tools that support both methods.

LaunchDarkly

Feature-Driven Development vs. Test-Driven Development

In this post, we'll examine two popular Agile methodologies and outline their pros and cons.

LaunchDarkly

Using LaunchDarkly with TypeScript

If you are already using TypeScript in your application development or looking to start, this post will show you how to get LaunchDarkly working within your TypeScript code using the Node.js SDK and how to integrate the React SDK for the frontend in a TypeScript project.

Brian Rinaldi