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“Seamless Integrations and Robust Support Stand Out Despite Initial Setup Difficulties”
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LaunchDarkly is a comprehensive feature management platform that equips software teams to proactively reduce the risk of shipping bad software and AI applications while accelerating their release velocity. By progressively rolling out features, monitoring critical metrics in real time, instantly rolling back flawed code, easily conducting targeted experiments, and quickly iterating on AI prompts and models, development teams can ship innovation consistently and confidently.
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The good things about the product are great. The interface is intuitive and very user friendly, the delivery capabilities are progressive, it supports deliberate experimentation like A/B testing and segment-driven targeting, and the integrations are seamless.
- Separation of deployment from release: The ability to merge and deploy code to production continuously while controlling feature visibility independently has eliminated the stress of big bang releases. - Granular user targeting: Granular control for percentage-based or attribute-based progressive rollouts. - Developer-friendly tooling: Well documented SDKs and an intuitive UI make integration and management simple.
The ease of use surrounding it. It's very easy from a code perspective to check a flag's value and code your logic behind that value. It's also very easy to flip that flag's value from their UI. And the fact that you can also toggle a flag's value with a query param helps a bunch for local testing.
The initial setup can be fairly daunting, especially if you are new to feature flagging or not familiar with the tool's architecture. This can cause a steep learning curve if you don't do a lot of research ahead of time or don't have prior experience with the platform.
- Technical debt: Stale flags accumulate quickly without a disciplined cleanup process. - Cost at scale: The MAU-based pricing model can become expensive for high-volume services. - Added latency/dependency: Introduces an external network dependency that can impact application performance.
There's not much to dislike. It is very easy to use and offers many benefits that my company uses daily. One thing that perhaps hurts a bit is the financial cost of this, as it can get quite high depending on how much it is used.
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LaunchDarkly Feature Management Platform Reviews and Ratings
- SENIOR MANAGER<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Seamless Integrations and Robust Support Stand Out Despite Initial Setup Difficulties
My overall experience with the product and vendor has been great so far. The user interface is great, and the product's features are powerful. I have also had a good experience with anything support related from both a sales and technical perspective. - Software Developer<50M USDBankingReview Source
Decoupling Feature Release from Deployment Transforms Development, Raises Cost Concerns
LaunchDarkly has been a transformative tool for our development process. It has fundamentally changed how we ship software, enabling us to move faster with significantly less risk by decoupling code deployment from feature release. It's not an indispensable part of our CI/CD pipeline. - SOFTWARE DEVELOPER50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
Feature Flags Allow Instant Rollbacks Without Application Restarts for Developers
The ability to slowly rollout your features with feature flags makes things so much easier and adds a peace of mind. Rather than having to do an entire rollback if something doesn't go right, you can simply toggle the respective flag and everything can go back to the way it was within seconds without needing a restart of the application. Excellent for customer-facing platforms. - PLATFORM ENGINEER50M-1B USDRetailReview Source
Feature Management Platform Increases Control But Presents Cost and Usability Challenges
The platform has completely transformed how we release and manage features, giving us greater confidence, agility and control over our deployments. - Manager, Project Management50M-1B USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
Reliable FF platform with strong rollouts control, but lacking built-in observability and costly at scale
My overall experience with LaunchDarkly is mixed. While it offers strong capabilities around feature flag management and safe releases, there are significant gaps when it comes to observability and pricing.