Item: LaunchDarkly
Rating: 8
Author: Kristofer McConnell

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When making structural changes to our systems, our operations teams use the feature management to maintain stability while undergoing these processes. The fact that we can use feature flags in place throughout our systems [means] we can put our applications into maintenance mode and make the necessary system updates and be at ease of mind.

Pros and Cons

Feature management.
Feature flags.

It takes some practice for the real power of LaunchDarkly to "click" for everyone within your organization.

Return on Investment

Less downtime.

Usability

LaunchDarkly had all of the integrations ready to go and easy to setup; no cryptic guides or buggy attempts. All our integrations worked with little to no fuss.

Performance

LaunchDarkly really simplifies testing new features against production workloads.

Alternatives Considered

I have not used any other software.

Key Insights

Do you think LaunchDarkly delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with LaunchDarkly's feature set?

Yes

Did LaunchDarkly live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of LaunchDarkly go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy LaunchDarkly again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

After seeing LaunchDarkly's approach you can save your dev teams from reinventing the wheel many times over.

Launch Darkly is great for testing data intensive applications

Overall Satisfaction with LaunchDarkly