Feature Toggle vs. LaunchDarkly

Feature Toggle is well suited in the hands of a software programmer and someone who understands processes. Figure out your processes high-level first, then, instruct the programmer to do their thing. Hopefully, you have a programmer with both skills.

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Great for rolling out features slowly for beta testing in production. I would say it is less well suited for toggling features permanently for users as this requires more integration with our backend and billing systems that would be a lot of work to set up.

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• Limit software options - prevents rework time
• Allows for beta testing - allows for better later buy-in

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• Feature Flag Management: It's like magic. With a flip of a switch, you can manage feature rollouts to visitors or accounts across the web and mobile applications!
• Segmentation: Create a segment of visitors or accounts and then use that to target a feature flag rule. Really easy to use and saves so much time.
• Ease of Use: Seamless copy/paste functionality, really clear status indicators so you can find what is on and for whom.

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• More help/how-to literate or use cases.
• Conditional logic could be improved.
• More dynamic interface.

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• It would be nice to see a feature flag's settings against all environments at once.
• It would be to have a "array" type flag for related but different settings (eg, enableA and enableB could be enable: [a, b]).
• It would be nice have customizable columns on the Users page (eg, if I want to inject a new meta data).

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It fits out business case

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It's very easy to create new feature flags and set them properly. It is more difficult to get LaunchDarkly integrated within a distributed system so that flags can be used. Especially on stateless servers where gating features by user is not easy. Overall though, it is very easy to get started and I like how simple it is to use.

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No issue with availability at all

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From what I have seen, LaunchDarkly integrates well with your code and also services you might have in your tech ecosystem. We use Jenkins for automation and we were able to use it to build pipelines to automate the control of LaunchDarkly toggles in our code.

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I'm not sure about the support ....we didn't use it.

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The overall support is very responsive

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Yes I do.

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Togglz has more detailed documentation and recurring updates. But the Togglz default setting to "HTTP" caused some glitches.

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Rollout is another dedicated feature flag tool that can be used to manage features. LaunchDarkley offers all the features of an enterprise level tool, unlike Rollout, reserves the security features for the Enterprise plan. Out of box integrations are limited but they do have a well documented REST API.

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The platform didn't go down since we implemented it

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• Was a decent self-serve/educational tool.
• Ultimately this did not solve all of our problems, but it did help us streamline a bit by testing out plausible future functionalities.
• Allowed us to make basic improvements and updates and push them out faster than we would have without it.

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• Improved developer experience with some teams moving to Trunk-based Development.
• Increased deployment frequency due to smaller code releases.
• Validation of the technical and business value of work is achieved more quickly through smaller pieces of work and through experimenting with a small group of users before a feature gets to 100% of customers.

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