Topic: launchdarkly

New LaunchDarkly features bring its platform to ‘the next frontier of DevOps’

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

Using custom contexts to improve targeting capabilities

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

LaunchDarkly updates tie objects to business use cases

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

LaunchDarkly focuses on minimizing risk, maximizing value in Fall 2022 update

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

LaunchDarkly summer update includes improved way for running experiments

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

Report: Psychological safety for dev teams fosters innovation

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

How these tool providers address the issue of release automation

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

Release automation creates repeatable paths to software delivery

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

LaunchDarkly Raises $200 Million in Series D Financing, Tripling Valuation to $3 Billion

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 steps into the spotlight

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

LaunchDarkly introduces Progressive Delivery

Introducing Progressive Delivery

Application success depends on delivery speed, product quality and perceived value, but it’s hard to get all three right. Faster release cycles often equate to lower code quality and the “value” developers think they’re providing may fail completely from the end user’s point of view. Progressive Delivery helps by taking the guesswork out of what … continue reading

SD Times news digest: GitLab.com transitions CDN to Cloudflare, LaunchDarkly raises $53 million, and Datadog launches partner network

GitLab.com has announced that it is changing its content delivery network to Cloudflare. Currently, they are using Fastly to serve content, but switching to Cloudflare will allow them to have a single vendor for CDN, WAF, and DDoS protection.   According to GitLab, this will only affect some GitLab.com users, not GitLab self-managed users. Affected users … continue reading

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