LaunchDarkly
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Great for launching beta features
What do you like best about the product?
Great for rolling out features slowly for beta testing in production. I would say it is less well suited for toggling features permanently for users as this requires more integration with our backend and billing systems that would be a lot of work to set up.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing model means that to get adequate users to enable sensible auditing is very expensive. We have ended up sharing users between engineers just to make the solution cost-effective. This is OK while we are developing, but once we fully roll out to production and want non-engineers to take control of the feature flags, it will be difficult to get the cost approved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are building a new customer-facing platform that spans all products in the company and has multiple teams working on features. LaunchDarkly allows us to manage our rollout of new features by different teams so they can be deployed independently and slowly released to the interested beta users.
Having features wrapped in flags has allowed us to test in production before anyone sees it. This has allowed us to find issues that we could not have seen with QA data.
Having features wrapped in flags has allowed us to test in production before anyone sees it. This has allowed us to find issues that we could not have seen with QA data.
I like it!
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the in memory calculation, the ability to store last versions on dynamodb, a great documentation and plenty of integrations. I like that every time that I press the intercom button I see new cool features.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice to have an implementation for tests that allows to fetch the flags and then use only in memory set and get of flags, as we have selenium tests that have many variations and the api quota is far from being enough as tests are running in parallel. I had to implement a kind of a hack with dynamodb and multiple launchdarkly clients in order to make it work. It was nice If I could send an email for users in a beta group, but it doesn't make sense with the in memory solution so I have no idea how to do it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Opening features, creation of beta groups, using the simple UI to enable folks from the business to change the variation for a segment, gradual rollout, kill switch in case of issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a solid flagging solution, and you feel that your company is ready to takes the next step toward continous deployment, it will help you achieve it
Pretty easy to set up
What do you like best about the product?
LauchDarkly is pretty simple and has just enough features to be useful without getting overwhelming. I was able to get it working within 2 hours in a fairly complex web app.
What do you dislike about the product?
I found the custom attributes to be the most powerful feature and could really be used to replace other features, making it and even simpler tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It puts less pressure on our team to get things passed at the deadline. If one feature has not be tested to our satisfaction, we can disable it and not hold up the entire release.
LaunchDarkly has tremendously cut down on prod patches!
What do you like best about the product?
LaunchDarkly has great up time! They also have first class Terraform support.
What do you dislike about the product?
The raw API clients for manually manipulating flags are a bit rough (just generated with Open API). But most companies wouldn't need to use them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Now that we are using LaunchDarkly, we don't need to patch prod as often. Any larger change gets a feature flag, so we can roll it out safely.
Easy for customer-facing teams to manage
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to find flags and quickly enable or disable for our customers. We also leverage a Slack integration so that we can monitor changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would be cool to see a little easier way of which "customers" have which flag.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to do staged or slow rollouts of features, control the experience for various customer types, and of course use it for testing to duplicate the same experience we can later use for our customer environments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Encourage communication between eng and customer-facing teams to make sure the naming conventions of the flags are consistent. Make descriptive notes or mention tickets that best describe the feature behind the flag.
Awesome - changed the way we release features
What do you like best about the product?
Everything, really easy to use. It changed the way we release features, improve d our quality
What do you dislike about the product?
Don't have easy way to test new behaviors in automation testing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Help us move to daily deploys, detached the deploy process from our feature release.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It will help you to develop faster and deploy more often
This service speed up our development by allowing splitting deployment from release cycles.
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity of usage and high availability.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to have a better way of flags management (views). So we know we should have a convention, but proposals from LD about it and maybe force that in case a team choose such convention would be really valuable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Basically thanks to LaunchDarkly we could split the service deployment cycles from the exact release to the customer. In a DevOps world I would say this is "must have".
Fast and safely shipping the features that customers need
What do you like best about the product?
- Launchdarkly help us ship features across all platforms (web, native apps, and backends)
- The slack integrations help us enable team's autonomy being aware of the status of the flags
- The easy to use UI empowers product managers to turn on the feature for all users
- The slack integrations help us enable team's autonomy being aware of the status of the flags
- The easy to use UI empowers product managers to turn on the feature for all users
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing alarming so far (even though we do have lots of legacy flags to clean up :) )
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need flags to control the feature rollout. LaunchDarkly does exactly fulfill that job.
IMO, Launchdarkly is part of modern software stack, the more you do, the continuous delivery maturity of the team would go.
IMO, Launchdarkly is part of modern software stack, the more you do, the continuous delivery maturity of the team would go.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Engineers should be empowered to build software core to the business, and they should ship software frequently as well as safely. Launchdarkly is a service empowering that idea.
So easy to use and just the best at what it does
What do you like best about the product?
It's super easy to use and understand
It performs well
It has amazing documentation
It has all of the features you could ever need, including a fully featured REST API
Their support is awesome
It performs well
It has amazing documentation
It has all of the features you could ever need, including a fully featured REST API
Their support is awesome
What do you dislike about the product?
it is significantly more money than the competition
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
feature toggling front end apps
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's the best product by far, but there are cheaper options that may meet your needs.
Simple & awesome
What do you like best about the product?
Love the simplicity of toggling features on/off from the LD console.
Also love that we can do a staggered roll-out to users.
Even support is really solid.
Also love that we can do a staggered roll-out to users.
Even support is really solid.
What do you dislike about the product?
No pain points yet. Biggest learning curve is the new LD language we need to learn to implement the feature flag logic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
2 business problems:
1. Obviously use this to manage new feature releases to internal & external customers.
2. Using this to toggle major product features for clients on/off, based on their subscriptions.
1. Obviously use this to manage new feature releases to internal & external customers.
2. Using this to toggle major product features for clients on/off, based on their subscriptions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is the leader in feature flags and release management as far as we are concerned.
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