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Feature Management with LaunchDarkly

By : Michael Gillett
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Feature Management with LaunchDarkly

By: Michael Gillett

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, DevOps has become the de facto approach for designing, building, and delivering software. Feature management is now extending the DevOps methodology to allow applications to change on demand and run experiments to validate the success of new features. If you want to make feature management happen, LaunchDarkly is the tool for you. This book explains how feature management is key to building modern software systems. Starting with the basics of LaunchDarkly and configuring simple feature flags to turn features on and off, you'll learn how simple functionality can be applied in more powerful ways with percentage-based rollouts, experimentation, and switches. You'll see how feature management can change the way teams work and how large projects, including migrations, are planned. Finally, you'll discover various uses of every part of the tool to gain mastery of LaunchDarkly. This includes tips and tricks for experimentation, identifying groups and segments of users, and investigating and debugging issues with specific users and feature flag evaluations. By the end of the book, you'll have gained a comprehensive understanding of LaunchDarkly, along with knowledge of the adoption of trunk-based development workflows and methods, multi-variant testing, and managing infrastructure changes and migrations.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
5
Section 2:Getting the Most out of Feature Management
11
Section 3: Mastering LaunchDarkly

Exploring project management

Projects are how feature flags, segments, metrics, and some settings can be grouped together. A project could be a 1:1 mapping to a team so that the feature flags for the team's products are all grouped together. Alternatively, a project could span multiple teams but remain focused on a particular value stream of the business. So in this case, we group together flags for products that form key user experiences.

In addition to the projects, there are environments. The environment for which a feature flag is being configured exists only within one project, and projects can have several environments set up. Both projects and environments were explained in Chapter 3, Basics of LaunchDarkly and Feature Management. However. in this section, I will share more information.

The following screenshot displays all projects with their environments listed within them underneath the Projects section:

Figure 13.3 – The Projects...