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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

This chapter has given you an introduction to the modern approach to building software and how this can be achieved and measured. We have explored several approaches in which feature management can develop those practices and the tangible ways it can improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps metrics.

With this knowledge, you should be able to appreciate how feature management can be valuable to the software development process. This, in turn, allows teams to benefit from more efficient practices and from building products with increased value for their customers and their business.

In the next chapter, I will explain how you can build on the DevOps methodology to building software, how you can get the most from feature management, and how you can use LaunchDarkly to make it happen.