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5 Reasons You Can't Miss Galaxy '23

Discover the next frontier of DevOps at LaunchDarkly's Galaxy 2023 conference. Don't miss it, register now!

Jenna Bilotta

Experimentation: The Power of Continuous Improvement

James Frost

Why 2024 Is the Year Tech Leaders Are Investing in Feature Management

In its 2023 Hype Cycle™ for Agile and DevOps, Gartner recognized the growing importance of feature management in modern organizations.

Jenna Bilotta

Have You Outgrown Your WYSIWYG Experimentation Tool?

Visual editors helped popularize experimentation on the web. But they're inadequate for supporting the kind of large-scale, cross-platform experimentation required by the modern enterprise.

Aaron Montana

Snowflake Summit Recap

LaunchDarkly recently became an official Snowflake Marketplace partner, and for the first time, our team attended Snowflake Summit. Read our main takeaways.

Doug Gould

How Naviance Unlocked Its Monolith to Migrate with Confidence

It's a familiar story. The success and growth of a company eventually created a problem: while it started with a small monolithic architecture, as things expanded, a single codebase maintained and enhanced successfully by a handful of teams simply could not scale to concurrent work by hundreds of engineers. 

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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. 

Rebecca Dodd

7 Benefits of Containerization

Let’s walk through what containerization means these days, how it works, and how it can benefit your workloads and application development.

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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.

Rebecca Dodd

AWS Re:Invent 2022 Recap: Building and Operating at Scale with Feature Management

Titled "Building and Operating at Scale with Feature Management," the session emphasized that feature management isn't just about showing or hiding things from end users; it's actually a way of evolving your software stack safely.

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AWS Re:Invent Session Recap: Observability, Security, and Feature Management

The session covered how threats have evolved, new detection methods, and how feature flags can play a crucial role in both detecting and responding to attacks in highly innovative (and sometimes entertaining) ways.

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The Impact of Mass Layoffs on Software Development

Engineers share their thoughts on what happens when an organization makes drastic, immediate cuts to a development team.

Kevin Smith

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.

Rebecca Dodd

OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Lowering the Bar for “Code”

Imagine my surprise when I could feed ChatGPT prompts involving LaunchDarkly and frameworks/languages I commonly use (like Python, Flask, and React), and it returned pretty solid examples back!

Cody De Arkland

What Is a Production Environment?

A production environment is a real-time setting where the latest versions of software, products, or updates are pushed into live, usable operation for the intended end users.

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AWS re:Invent 2022 re:Capped

Let's catch you up on some of what you missed and how you can still dive in.

Alex Hardman

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.

Rebecca Dodd

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.

Rebecca Dodd

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. 

Rebecca Dodd

Introducing the 2022 State of Feature Management

In this year's State of Feature Management, you'll learn why companies are investing in feature management, despite uncertain economic conditions. 

Kevin Smith

Guest Post: Automating Customer Feature Requests and Flags with Hightouch and Reverse ETL

This is a guest post from our partner Hightouch, the leading data activation platform that quickly and securely syncs data from the data warehouse directly into over 100 SaaS tools, including LaunchDarkly.

Kevin Tran

Understanding and Balancing the Cognitive Loads of Developers

As DevOps engineers take on additional roles such as SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) or need to learn yet another Kubernetes-based platform tool, when is it just too much to handle?

Sara Mazer

Blue-Green Deployment vs Canary Deployment: How to Determine Which Deployment Strategy is Right for You

Whether you’re launching a new version of your application or debuting brand new features within your production environment, this quick guide will help you weigh up the compatibility of each process and understand which rollout method will prove the most successful for your use case.

Jessica Cregg

Feature Flag-Driven Development

A broad and comprehensive overview of feature flag-driven development, from gradual rollouts to A/B testing.

Justin Baker