LaunchDarkly
What Is LaunchDarkly?
LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that empowers all teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, LaunchDarkly Read more enables you to deploy faster, reduce risk, and iterate continuously. Over 1500 organizations around the world -- including Microsoft, Atlassian, and IBM -- use LaunchDarkly to control the entire feature lifecycle from concept, to launch, to value. Read lessWho Uses LaunchDarkly?
LaunchDarkly empowers all teams, of all sizes to deliver & control their software.
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Reviews of LaunchDarkly
Verified Reviewer
Robust platform
Pros:
Great software overall! Speeds up the development process and increases code quality at the same time.
Cons:
Works perfectly for us, no issues were experienced.
Verified Reviewer
LaunchDarkly makes continuous delivery using flags a breeze
Comments: We use LaunchDarkly to decouple Deployment and Release. We can focus on testing with the flag off initially - this should prove that the new code is not being called and existing functionality has not regressed. We can then be confident that master can be deployed to production at any time with the flag off without causing any problems. Once we have tested flag off we can focus on testing flag on to ensure the functionality is working. Once we are happy, we can then release the flag at whatever time suits the team and the business, and it is a non issue as there are no code deployments at release time.
Pros:
Being able to easily target individual or groups of users for internal or external testing is very powerful. Being able to quickly change these targeting rules, and the new feature of change requests to allow your change to be reviewed before being applied is great from a process point of view. The insights graph is fantastic at showing the variants that users are receiving and allows you to identify when a flag is ready to be removed.
Cons:
Some functionality like User Segments is very powerful but only available in the enterprise licence. The change request functionality is only optional at this time and cannot be enforced - ideally we would want changes to rules in production to only be allowed once they have been reviewed.
Or
I like LD but I would like to have it more stable in Production
Pros:
I like the features, SDK works fine, you bring new feature, good UX
Cons:
We get many errors like "[LaunchDarkly] Received error 50x for streaming connection - will retry" in Production Once I sent a message to the customer support and no answer SDK could be better No FedRAMP compliance
Brian
Alternatives Considered:
Not my decision to drop.
Comments: Solid tools. Allowed us to deploy more safely.
Pros:
Flags were a valuable tool to safely deploy with many teams working on the same stack.
Cons:
No real issues with the software. I view the product as mature.
Mark
Reach for the stars with LaunchDarkly
Pros:
Feature flagging is such a game changer and LaunchDarkly make it so easy. The UI and logic is incredibly easy to navigate and follow. Giving us the ability to test in production is huge and made such a difference to our production development.
Cons:
The API's are a little cumbersome to get our head around with the response properties not as clear as they could be. However once you have got your head around the terminology it is all good.
