We use the solution for risk-free releases, allowing us to control the blast radius when launching content to our customers. We also use it for targeted experiences, enabling us to reach specific customer segments with various features as they are rolled out. However, the company's main use case was extensive A/B testing to conduct experiments.
Staff Engineer at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
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2024-06-28T17:21:53Z
Jun 28, 2024
We built a powerful e-commerce platform and heavily used LaunchDarkly to launch features behind a flag. This allowed us to implement trunk-based development, significantly improving our development speed. We could continuously deploy everything behind a flag and enable features only when ready, which was incredibly helpful. There are certain features we need to keep behind a flag. Typically, there are two ways to do this: using a property file or using LaunchDarkly. With property files, we had to deploy the feature in a lower environment, update the property, and then restart the server. LaunchDarkly, on the other hand, offers real-time changes and the ability to disable features if issues arise in production. This real-time capability is extremely beneficial.
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Our developers are using LaunchDarkly. I am using it to turn on features.
We use the solution for risk-free releases, allowing us to control the blast radius when launching content to our customers. We also use it for targeted experiences, enabling us to reach specific customer segments with various features as they are rolled out. However, the company's main use case was extensive A/B testing to conduct experiments.
We built a powerful e-commerce platform and heavily used LaunchDarkly to launch features behind a flag. This allowed us to implement trunk-based development, significantly improving our development speed. We could continuously deploy everything behind a flag and enable features only when ready, which was incredibly helpful. There are certain features we need to keep behind a flag. Typically, there are two ways to do this: using a property file or using LaunchDarkly. With property files, we had to deploy the feature in a lower environment, update the property, and then restart the server. LaunchDarkly, on the other hand, offers real-time changes and the ability to disable features if issues arise in production. This real-time capability is extremely beneficial.