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Software releases: navigating between innovation and user expectations

Our Field CTO Yadi Narayana discusses strategies for maintaining safe releases while still supporting a culture of innovation.

Yadi Narayana

5 Strategies to De-Risk Software Releases in Retail & eCommerce

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Innovating Safely With Generative AI in Financial Services

Matt DeLaney

5 Strategies to De-Risk Software Releases in Financial Services

Matt DeLaney

How to instantly flip web app styles with LaunchDarkly's JavaScript client library

Discover how to instantly switch web app styles using LaunchDarkly's feature flags in this JavaScript tutorial. Follow along as we transform DJ Toggle’s fan page from a nostalgic 1995 look to a sleek 2000s style, all controlled by a feature flag. Learn to create and manage feature flags, allowing you to update your app’s appearance without redeploying code. If something goes wrong, simply toggle the flag off to revert to the original style, ensuring a smooth user experience. This step-by-step guide emphasizes risk-free feature rollouts, making your development process safer and more efficient. Explore more ways to innovate confidently with LaunchDarkly’s powerful tools.

Erin Mikail Staples

2024 Survey: Impact of LaunchDarkly on Customer Outcomes

Matt DeLaney

4 Risk Mitigation Strategies for Software Releases

Manish Gupta

The Impact of Feature Management on Software Engineering and Business Performance

Matt DeLaney

Let’s Work Together to Make Painful Software Outages a Thing of the Past

Dan Rogers

CI/CD Showdown: Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment

Jesse Sumrak

What Are Software Deployments? Methodology + Best Practices

Peter McCarron

6 Deployment Strategies (and How to Choose the Best for You)

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Modern DevOps: The Shift to Operating Continuously

Brian Rinaldi

Top 4 Release Management Trends for 2024

Eric Rubin

Beta testing programs: everything you need to know

In this article, we'll look at what beta testing involves, the benefits it can offer and how you can implement it within your organization.

Brian Rinaldi

Autodesk Used to Only Release Mobile Features Every 6-8 Weeks. Now, It's Every Week

Allison Rogers

3 Reasons Mobile App Releases Are So Painful…and How to Fix Them

Matt DeLaney

A beginner's guide to targeting with feature flags

Learn how to use feature flags and LaunchDarkly's targeting engine to deliver targeted experiences to any user, thing, or combination of users and things.

Brian Rinaldi

What Are Feature Flags?

Feature flags allow you to enable or disable a feature without modifying source code or requiring a redeploy.

Brian Rinaldi

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

7 Reasons Percentage Rollouts Reduce Deployment Risk

Deploying new features is often risky business, especially in a high-volume production environment. A bad bug can take down your entire app or affect your user base.

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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

What Is a Canary Release?

Performing a canary release helps improve your final release for end users ahead of a much larger rollout. 

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