LaunchDarkly
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Premier SAAS Platform for Feature Flags
What do you like best about the product?
Feature Flagging can be hard. Launch Darkly makes managing feature flags for developers and product managers a breeze. Launch Darkly allows teams to release their code safely and even more rapidly because their code changes can be progressively rolled out to specific users and geographies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. Launch Darkly is a Great solution. Pricing is super competitive to home grown solutions, and Launch Darkly is always shipping new updates and functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Launch Darkly allows our engineering teams to release code daily, when we used to release monthly or even quarterly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start with a single flag in your development environment, then get that flag deployed all the way to production. Start small.
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
Game Changer for Dev and Product Team Release Cycles
What do you like best about the product?
I've seen many in house solutions to feature toggling. I've even built a few myself. Feature toggling is not a new idea in web dev. Most companies are doing some version of it in their apps today. I'm guessing most are not as well thought out, future ready and extensible as LaunchDarkly. After seeing LaunchDarkly's approach I know mine wasn't. Save your dev teams from reinventing the wheel many times over, try out LD!
LD had all the all the integrations ready to go and easy to setup, no cryptic guides or buggy attempts. Our all integrations worked with little to no fuss.
Their IAM strategy is best in class.
LD had all the all the integrations ready to go and easy to setup, no cryptic guides or buggy attempts. Our all integrations worked with little to no fuss.
Their IAM strategy is best in class.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes some practice for the real power of LaunchDarkly to "click" for everyone within your org. LaunchDarkly takes user context and targeting rules out of the code and into shared admin interfaces, democratizing these controls. It's a huge time saver and reduces friction between dev and product release cycles. This can be a huge paradigm shift for both dev teams and product managers in order to get it right. The LD team has amazing onboarding and training documents, demos and support staff. Don't miss out, use them to educate your teams early and often!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Code releases ahead of product launches.
2. Demos and sales pitches of new features and products in PROD envs. for 3rd party partnerships. Safe, self service controls for QA, Product and Sales teams.
3. Permanent toggles states for different business channels leveraging common components with slight variations.
4. Wholesale UX flow changes to meet business cases and still maintaining DRY standards in our code.
2. Demos and sales pitches of new features and products in PROD envs. for 3rd party partnerships. Safe, self service controls for QA, Product and Sales teams.
3. Permanent toggles states for different business channels leveraging common components with slight variations.
4. Wholesale UX flow changes to meet business cases and still maintaining DRY standards in our code.
The best tool for shipping software
What do you like best about the product?
I love that I can develop freely behind a feature flag, not worrying that my work will break things for my customers, and not stressing over product-level polish at every stage of my work. I can turn it on for a few customers at a time, sometimes even for an hour for a usability test. The targeting controls are very flexible and can be extended with customer attributes so I can always reach exactly who I want.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's easy to accumulate dozens of feature flags, some that depend on each other. This can make app behavior very hard to reason about, bordering on non-deterministic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've reduced delivery risk, made development more iterative and increased deployment speed. I can't imagine building a product without LaunchDarkly.
We've even used LaunchDarkly for easter eggs, like a rainbow chart for Pride.
We've even used LaunchDarkly for easter eggs, like a rainbow chart for Pride.
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.
Great service
What do you like best about the product?
Great service allowing us to deploy features directly in production
What do you dislike about the product?
When using a lot of feature flags, the app sometimes becomes difficult to maintain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying features in production
Change how you deliver software
What do you like best about the product?
The product is so simple to use. It removes any need for feature branches and the overhead that comes with them. We have trained our product team to use the tool and they now decide when software is released.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see an easier way to propagate targeting across environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving several problems with LaunchDarkly. We are enabling features based on roles and permissions of our users. Grouping users into specific segments. A/B testing and controlling production availability of features.
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
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