LaunchDarkly has come out with a new solution to help improve release confidence and reduce the risks associated with releasing new software. The new offering, Guarded Releases, establishes benchmarks for performance, latency, and availability for each stage of a rollout. This enables development teams to more proactively detect and address issues before they become issues … continue reading
The feature flag company LaunchDarkly has announced a number of new additions to its platform that will help developers “ship at the speed of now.” These announcements were unveiled at LaunchDarkly’s annual user conference, Galaxy ‘24, happening today and tomorrow in San Francisco. First, the company announced several user experience updates, such as improved navigation, … continue reading
LaunchDarkly today is releasing updates to its platform to address the reality of the resource-constrained times we are in but in which developers are still expected to move at the same pace or even faster. DevOps has helped with this effort of delivering stable software quickly, keep customers happy and innovate faster than their competitors, … continue reading
Targeting is becoming increasingly complex. It used to be the case that all end users were people, but now companies need to reliably deploy updates to groups and “things” beyond these traditional users. This could mean connected devices or unique user groups like buildings, vehicles, or stores – the options are somewhat endless. Simultaneously, as … continue reading
The team at the SaaS platform LaunchDarkly has released a roundup of product updates intended to help users deliver software more quickly and with less risk through feature management. First, custom contexts are now generally available for all LaunchDarkly customers. With this, organizations are enabled to create several target objects which can map to a … continue reading
The feature flag management company LaunchDarkly has announced its Fall 2022 release, with the focus of the new capabilities being to minimize risk and maximize value. It has added a number of new features to Feature Workflows, which is a set of capabilities for automating elements of the software release process. Customers will now be … continue reading
The feature flag management company LaunchDarkly today released its summer 2022 release roundup that highlights the key updates the company has made in the last few months. Among these is an improved way to run experiments, new templates for repeatable Workflows, new integrations, and quicker approvals. Back in June, LaunchDarkly released the new LaunchDarkly Experimentation, … continue reading
As important as it is for organizations to continue to innovate their software products quickly and with quality, that cannot be achieved in today’s world without ensuring “psychological safety” for its development teams. Ravi Tharisayi, senior director of product marketing at feature management software provider LaunchDarkly, defined the term as a strong interconnection between software … continue reading
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies deal with release automation challenges. Their responses are below. Paul Stovell, founder and CTO, Octopus Deploy DevOps is about bringing teams together to collaborate. But when it comes to automation, the tooling is fragmented. Most CI/CD tools do a basic … continue reading
New software features and updates are the lifeblood of many organizations today, so the faster they can bring them out, the more competitive and customer-responsive they will be. One of the techniques progressive organizations are using to achieve that goal is release automation. Understanding what goes into release automation is key to realizing its benefits. … continue reading
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LaunchDarkly, the leading feature management platform for software development teams, announced today that it has closed $200 million in Series D financing led by Lead Edge Capital with new investors Top Tier Capital Partners and New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners … continue reading
Continuous delivery is stepping out from the shadow of its partner, continuous integration, and is having a moment as organizations look to increase the speed of application delivery while still delivering stable software. There is a problem, however. A recent “State of Continuous Delivery” report by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) found that adoption is … continue reading
