LaunchDarkly has greatly increased our ability to deploy and rollback production quickly and easily
What do you like best about the product?
LaunchDarkly has allowed us to deploy code into production on a regular basis and then enable release on demand to different segments of our customers (or all of them) on our schedule and not when the code is deployed. If something is wrong, instead of spending costly time rolling things back we can simply turn off the feature flag and hide the error from our customers and then fix it behind the scenes. This allow allows us to test it in production without impacting production. Highly recommend taking the steps needed to enable feature flags in your code and then utlizing LaunchDarkly to quickly manage who can see what in your applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that would be nice to have in LaunchDarkly would be a one click button after something was approved for rollback that would quickly undo what was done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly allows us to go to production quickly, enable a slow rollout to different customer segments, quicker rollbacks than rolling back code, and supportability - if we turn off the feature flag we can enable it for people to then go in and see what the actual problem was and fix any defects in real time without impacting our customers. It is amazing how many things are easier to fix if the problem still exists but it is now hidden vs rolled back and the developer is unable to see the logs / issue in action.