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LaunchDarkly

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What is LaunchDarkly?

LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.

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Screenshot of regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. This connects critical metrics to the release process so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.
Screenshot of where track the progression of a feature flag across a series of phases, where each phase consists of one or more environments.
Screenshot of how to target groups of contexts individually or by attribute. Contexts are people, services, machines, or other resources that encounter feature flags in a product.
Screenshot of where to design experiments that measure business-critical user flows and provide results specific to those product funnels, and measure multi-step user journeys. This is used to determine whether conversions are succeeding, with all metrics visible in one place.

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Screenshot of regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. This connects critical metrics to the release process so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.

Reviews

What users are saying about LaunchDarkly.
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Great product for a growing dev team

Incentivized
Michael GallouedecView profile
Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at 4 Walls Inc./Respage (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LaunchDarkly to help hide incomplete features from end users. This allows us to deploy code to production more often, which reduces code conflicts and leads to a healthier codebase

Pros

  • Separate Flags by Deployment Environment
  • target specific users or user groups with flags
  • allows us to subscribe to changes in feature flags while a session is ongoing

Cons

  • better splitting by user group

Return on Investment

  • LaunchDarkly has helped us maintain a weekly release train, which provides a level of consistency for our users
  • LaunchDarkly has helped us gate new features, which gives us more ability to test in production, which leads to better tested code

Usability

Other Software Used

WebStorm, ClickUp, GitHub

Continuous Deployment Made Easy

Incentivized
Daniel YefetView profile
Lead Developer in Engineering at Win Technologies a proud member of the Betway Group (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We predominantly use LaunchDarkly to facilitate our Trunk Based / Continuous Deployment workflow, enabling us to deploy multiple times a day and target specific user segments. We also use it to run UI experiments that help us determine the optimal customer experience.

Pros

  • Feature management
  • A/B and multivariate testing
  • Segmentation

Cons

  • More support for Edge-side solutions

Return on Investment

  • Increase in deployment frequency (multiple per day from each engineer)
  • Decrease in lead times for features
  • Less production bugs
  • Higher conversion rate for landing pages via experimentation

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Optimizely Web Experimentation and VWO

Deploy fast and easy

Incentivized
David McCallister
AA Info Systems Manager in Finance and Accounting at NCTCOG (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Measures performance of new app features.
  • Turn off features that might be causing problems in production.
  • Delivers true continuous integration.
  • Manage features without full deployment.

Cons

  • Overview across environments could be enhanced in the tree view (add a button) similar to dashboard UX.

Return on Investment

  • Less downtime for break-fix issues since they've been tested ahead of deployment.
  • Increased confidence with overall system usability and user acceptance.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CloudBees Rollout

Launch it Darkly!

Incentivized
Skylar Bolton
Software Engineer in Engineering at Prenda (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Targeting and segments.
  • Feature creation.
  • Quick setup.

Cons

  • Limited seats on account.
  • Cost for every other feature.
  • Forcing customers into enterprise level accounts.

Return on Investment

  • Turn off failing features.

Usability

LaunchDarkly is a great service to manage feature flags

Incentivized
Todd Burkholder
Software Development Manager in Information Technology at Our Sunday Visitor, Inc (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • LaunchDarkly does a great job of controlling the release of new features.
  • LaunchDarkly makes it easy to handle feature flags across multiple environments.
  • LaunchDarkly makes it easy to turn on feature flags for specific users.

Cons

  • It can be hard to manage a large number of feature flags.
  • I would like to see some more reports and analytics around feature flags.

Return on Investment

  • Instead of having the development team build out their own implementation of feature flags within our products, we were able to set up and implement LaunchDarkly in less than a day.

Usability

Other Software Used

Pendo.io, Pendo Feedback (formerly Receptive), Statuspage

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