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Feature Flag Platform with potential to improve
February 22, 2022

Feature Flag Platform with potential to improve

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with LaunchDarkly

We currently use it in a couple of ways:
1. Use for configuration values that are shared across multiple applications
2. Feature Flagging for new features can deploy and test while still being developed.
3. Used it as a feature kill switch if we need to disable a feature during peak traffic/season.
  • Tracking if a feature flag is in use.
  • The API is straight forward before basic tasks.
  • The UI is easy to understand.
  • Customer support at times is hard to work with.
  • The ability to create a feature flag in one environment and publish to others.
  • The ability to test and disable features on production.
  • The ability for teams that are working on a large initiatives to control when they part can be enabled.
1. Adding feature flags is easy it can take less than a minute to create and use.
2. User Account permission is not the easiest to set up even with help from the support team.
3. Using LaunchDarkly on pages that use if-modified-since can be a bit of a headache to set up correctly.
- Usually, the API performance is excellent; usually, we did see at times it slowed down and did have a small impact on our site. In the last couple of months, we noticed their platform has had more incidents than in the past.

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?

No

Did implementation of LaunchDarkly go as expected?

No

Would you buy LaunchDarkly again?

No

1. It is not too hard to do LaunchDarkly if you need feature flags and scaling rollout. However, IF you have CDN in front of your application, it gets interesting.
2. Sharing configuration across multiple applications makes it easy.
3. Using it as a kill switch for components on your site, you can disable it during peak seasons (e.g. Black Friday) to improve the performance and stability of your site.