LaunchDarkly
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Intuitive platform, enables experimentation teams, great support from account execs
What do you like best about the product?
The platform is easy to use, and is very practical in allowing different teams to have controls over specific parts of the release process. Experimentation can have their roles separately from engingeering and these permissions allow multiple parts of the business to align on feature rollout. There looks to be loads of potential for metrics tracking in the web app, which will be very useful in taking the grunt-work out of analysis. The account team / customer support is great, all of the memebers are very helpful and keen to work together to help you get the most out of the platform and the relationship.
What do you dislike about the product?
LaunchDarkly is very dependent on initial integration and the choices made in set up. It is vital to ensure experimentation are involved when first setting up the platform, if they are to be end users, else the setup choices may hinder experimentation capabilities and create tech debt.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly allows the experimentation team to control the rollout of AB tests, as opposed to being bottlenecked by pipelines within the tech stack, creating a much shorter time-to-launch for expeirments - it is essentially the click of a button! Likewise, the control being handed over to the experimentation team allows us to intervene much quicker if a feature/experiment is not going in the direction expected - with an almost instant turn off. The platform makes it easy to create, manage, and have visibility of experiments as well as maintaining accountability through logging changes.
Effective for feature release management but less so for experimentation
What do you like best about the product?
What I appreciate most about LaunchDarkly is its user-friendly interface and ease of learning, making it straightforward for our team to adopt. Also, the FAQs and documentation has been immensely helpful in navigating its features and functionalities.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although we use LaunchDarkly successfully for feature toggles, configuring it to meet our specific needs for experiments proved challenging. Moreover, when seeking support, we discovered that professional services come at an additional cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps us customise the product based on the region.
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 to hit the ground running feature flag and configuration SaaS tool
What do you like best about the product?
In both a personal and professional capacity LD has been easy to integrate with. Their SDKs are plug'n'play.
What do you dislike about the product?
Using launch darkly for configuration can be a bit tedious especially when dealing with JSON variations. Navigating around the JSON input does not feel natural, and the review box (diff tool) does not hightlight field changes very well, if at all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Feature flagging and configuration management. Config management means less engineer input into certain features when other stakeholders in the business can own the config.
Comprehensive solution for feature flag management
What do you like best about the product?
LaunchDarkly offers a complete full-featured platform for managing our feature flags. The interface is straightforward, the documentation is complete, and the customer success support has been very helpful. Most importantly we haven't encountered any operational issues in production related to our use of LaunchDarkly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The broad scope of LaunchDarkly functionality also means it can be difficult to be sure we are using it to its full potential.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly allows us to activate technical preview features for specific customers only, and also allows us to hide features deployed through continuous delivery so that we can reveal them as part of a coordinated marketing release.
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.
Feature flags made easy
What do you like best about the product?
I think one of the biggest advantages of using LaunchDarkly is the easy integration of libraries with application code. Simply register the LaunchDarkly client when bootstrapping the application, and make it available. All engineering levels can start working with feature flags in no time. Another great feature is the ability to target specific users and control how a flag's value behaves, which is excellent for piloting new applications in production. Even though we didn't use several integrations, seeing so many ways to connect LaunchDarkly to other apps is awesome. For us, the Slack integration was more than enough. Newer apps with no built-in feature flags would default to LaunchDarkly, increasing the frequency of use in the organization.
As far as I'm aware, we never reached out to Customer Support, so I don't have any useful comments to provide on that topic.
As far as I'm aware, we never reached out to Customer Support, so I don't have any useful comments to provide on that topic.
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably the website at the begining, but never was a dealbreaker. It does what it needs to do and after sometime I kind of like it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streamlining the process for launching new features into production, controlling when to turn them on and off, increases engineers' confidence when deploying without affecting the running systems.
LaunchDarkly is the tool for anyone serious about feature management
What do you like best about the product?
It's a one-stop shop for all things related to feature management: feature toggling, experiments, rollout strategies, ... It's all there and all very simple to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Searching for contexts, I find the filter option and its specific language a bit tricky and I always need a few tries to find what I want.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to have:
- release trains on mobile, so that we can ship every week
- progressive rollouts of features
- graceful degradation
- kill-switches
- experiments, A/B testing
Overall, LaunchDarkly has changed the way we approach software. We're more relaxed about shipping because we know everything can be behind a toggle, released progressively. It allows us to try things, show versions to a small cohort of users and get feedback early, ...
- release trains on mobile, so that we can ship every week
- progressive rollouts of features
- graceful degradation
- kill-switches
- experiments, A/B testing
Overall, LaunchDarkly has changed the way we approach software. We're more relaxed about shipping because we know everything can be behind a toggle, released progressively. It allows us to try things, show versions to a small cohort of users and get feedback early, ...
LaunchDarkly was and actually is a big game changer in our company.
What do you like best about the product?
A lot of possibilities to manage your product. Now we are using it on a daily basis. It is really easy to use, and if you explore it more you will find more and more useful things. "Easy to learn, hard to master". It was really easy to implement it in our environment. Contact with support was always a pleasure (Aaron is the nicest person I ve ever met).
What do you dislike about the product?
Implementation process was a little tricky. Not from the technical side but organisational. We didn't know that we can create one project for all platforms etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to proceed to CI/CD. Now every team can work on its part of the product. Timelines and limits of regular upgrades do not stop them, they can do it alone. Fuckups on the production can be "fixed" quickly by switching off the flag, then the team has more time to investigate and fix the problem with no time pressure.
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