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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

Summary

From reading this chapter, you should have gained an insight into the full functionality available for working with and managing feature flags. Before this chapter, this book had only detailed parts of LaunchDarkly relevant to the topic being explored at that time, whereas this chapter has covered everything that LaunchDarkly provides. This should enable you to make the most of the tool.

You should now know how to work with feature flags throughout their entire life cycle, from creating flags to archiving them, to deleting them completely. The use of filtering and refining the views and dashboards when working with a large number of concurrent flags will help you keep using LaunchDarkly efficiently.

Being able to extract the most value from the data provided within a feature flag is important, and you should now be able to use both the Insights and Experimentation sections to see how a flag is performing, either by ensuring that the targeting has been configured correctly...