LaunchDarkly
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Great feature flag management
What do you like best about the product?
Great product. It works well; it's easy to use and very feature-rich.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although there have been improvements to the UI, I feel some of these have made it harder to use (too many clicks).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
AB Testing and feature management like scheduled and incremental rollouts.
Worry free launching
What do you like best about the product?
It is quick to turn features on and off with Launch Darkly and save us from embarrassing releases and customer churn.
What do you dislike about the product?
I did like to have LD as a phone app that way I can turn flags on and off on the go.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to release features peacefully without customer functionality interruption is huge.
As a Product Manager I recommend using LaunchDarkly.
What do you like best about the product?
The platform offers a range of features that significantly contribute to our business, examples:
- Technology migration a crucial aspect for those transitioning to cloud-native applications. This feature ensures a seamless migration process, aligning with the evolving needs of modern software development.
- Release Guardian, its automatic rollback capabilities effectively reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), enhancing system stability and minimizing downtime during the release process.
- Integrations with popular collaboration tools like Slack and GitHub provide enhanced visibility into feature flag statuses
- Custom role concept, offering unparalleled flexibility in permission management.
- Technology migration a crucial aspect for those transitioning to cloud-native applications. This feature ensures a seamless migration process, aligning with the evolving needs of modern software development.
- Release Guardian, its automatic rollback capabilities effectively reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), enhancing system stability and minimizing downtime during the release process.
- Integrations with popular collaboration tools like Slack and GitHub provide enhanced visibility into feature flag statuses
- Custom role concept, offering unparalleled flexibility in permission management.
What do you dislike about the product?
One notable limitation of LaunchDarkly is the absence of a straightforward option for administrators to monitor team utilization effectively. For instance, in scenarios where projects are organized per product, quickly identifying active services on production can be challenging.
Additionally, there have been concerns raised about the onboarding process. Some teams have reported that obtaining the required certificate can be time-consuming.
Nevertheless, LaunchDarkly addresses these challenges by enhancing the user experience through initiatives like Engineering Insights and tech talks. Teams have the opportunity to sign up for these sessions to acquire the necessary information and insights to overcome obstacles in both the platform utilization and onboarding processes.
Additionally, there have been concerns raised about the onboarding process. Some teams have reported that obtaining the required certificate can be time-consuming.
Nevertheless, LaunchDarkly addresses these challenges by enhancing the user experience through initiatives like Engineering Insights and tech talks. Teams have the opportunity to sign up for these sessions to acquire the necessary information and insights to overcome obstacles in both the platform utilization and onboarding processes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Launching new features to an informed and prepared customer base, often through programs like Early Access Programs (EAP), is a key practice. This approach mitigates risks associated with new releases by concealing changes under feature flags, allowing for seamless deactivation without the need for redeployment. Additionally, transitioning to multi-tenancy is facilitated by tools such as Tap Compare, coupled with the flexibility to assign distinct feature flag values.
A simple way to manage features across several environments
What do you like best about the product?
LaunchDarkly has been a boon to dozens of teams in my space by giving us an easy way to toggle many features across a lot of enviroments and localizations. It has made testing feature implementation simple with a user-friendly GUI. We use LaunchDarkly every time we introduce something new to our project. It's been very easy to integrate with our frontend code as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Personally I haven't had any issues with LaunchDarkly so far, so no need to even contact customer support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly is helping us manage features across several environments for testing and continuous delivery.
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What do you like best about the product?
It's ease of use and affectiveness. It's very easy to learn LaunchDarkly and can be easily configured on multiple environments. It doesn't matter if a feature is small or a feature is large, it is easy to create flags for either.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't know if this was LaunchDarkly's fault or my organization, but initially getting access and getting a license was a bit of a process and took quite a while.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping deploy items before they are completely ready for deployment, because this way the items can be switched off until they have been properly tested and are ready to be used.
Amazing experience
What do you like best about the product?
Hot reload reset of my feature flag state
What do you dislike about the product?
All is looking good, there's nothing I can recomment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Pushing new changes into PROD behind a FF
LaunchDarkly Makes Feature Flags Very Easy
What do you like best about the product?
LaunchDarkly is very simple to use. The UI is intuitive and SDKs are simple and easy to test as well. LaunchDarkly is relied on heavily for our phased rollouts and anytime we're looking to roll out a new feature. LaunchDarkly helps us carry out these operations in a safe manner and also provides analytics to see how often certain variations are being evaluated
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of any downsides right now 😅
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly solves 2 problems for us
Phased Rollouts - LaunchDarkly allows us to bucket certain clusters easily in order to roll out to them in a phased approach
Releasing New Features - LaunchDarkly allows us to roll out to a small number of customers and slowly ramps up in a safe manner.
Phased Rollouts - LaunchDarkly allows us to bucket certain clusters easily in order to roll out to them in a phased approach
Releasing New Features - LaunchDarkly allows us to roll out to a small number of customers and slowly ramps up in a safe manner.
Premier Feature Management Platform
What do you like best about the product?
There's lots of to like about LaunchDarkly 99.99% availabilty, ~25ms for flag changes, Intinuitive UI, mature permissioning model, 100% of configuration can be Terraform'd, support for major IDPs the list goes on. Most importantly their customer support and account management is very good, it's a partnership and they offer support where many others will leave you to it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Only one price, you get what you pay for in most technologies and that's the same with LaunchDarkly, to get ROI you have to fully embrace the power of feature flag driven release management. LaunchDarkly releasing the new service based pricing model is a step in the right direction but as always there's more work to be done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it in a few ways:
* gradually releasing high risk changes, with LaunchDarkly we can target specific events to release the new functionality to, this massively reduces blast radius taking what would be a multi-million dollar incident to less than a hundred
* controlling product features, you can do this with homegrown solutions but the real benefit to using LaunchDarkly is its flag management features checking for flag staleness and code references ensuring that you can eventually clean these up and do so safely
* a/b testing UI changes in our account management dashboards
* gradually releasing high risk changes, with LaunchDarkly we can target specific events to release the new functionality to, this massively reduces blast radius taking what would be a multi-million dollar incident to less than a hundred
* controlling product features, you can do this with homegrown solutions but the real benefit to using LaunchDarkly is its flag management features checking for flag staleness and code references ensuring that you can eventually clean these up and do so safely
* a/b testing UI changes in our account management dashboards
An excellent and efficient solution for modern engineering practises and robust feature deliveries
What do you like best about the product?
It has an intuitive console alongside numerous integrations that accommodate a wide variety of tech, which you will find in most large-scale organisations.
Also, it has solutions that can work at scale and within the restrictions of regulated and controlled products.
Both technical and non-technical users can use it with ease.
Also, it has solutions that can work at scale and within the restrictions of regulated and controlled products.
Both technical and non-technical users can use it with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing really that strikes out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us achieve continuous deployment.
It acts as a feature management tool that allows product owners to control which experience to serve to the customers.
It helps us rollback features efficiently with no code changes/deployments
It allows us to test features and resolve issues in production.
It acts as a feature management tool that allows product owners to control which experience to serve to the customers.
It helps us rollback features efficiently with no code changes/deployments
It allows us to test features and resolve issues in production.
Easy release and manage features effectively
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that my team is able to control the rollout of features and changes across our applications, enabling us to deliver better software faster and with less risk. Overall, the tool is easy to use and integrate with several different tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integrating LaunchDarkly into applications can introduce some performance overhead, particularly if the feature flag evaluations are done synchronously and impact application response times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly helps businesses overcome the challenges associated with modern software development and release management by providing a powerful feature management platform that enables continuous delivery, risk mitigation, user experience optimization, and cross-functional collaboration.
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