What is Build?

The Build pillar addresses the use of feature flags for building and delivering new features, bug fixes, and code changes of any kind. While much of this category deals with release management, we've named it "Build" because of the critical role feature flags also play in pre-release …

What is Empower?

Empower, the fourth and final pillar of feature management, reimagines the process of giving users access to your software. It applies especially, though not exclusively to managing entitlements. In a software context, “entitlements” refers to the act of enabling or disabling features, services, and products for customers …

What is feature management?

Feature management is a new class of software development tools and techniques powered by feature flags. A feature flag is a lever of control within your code (an if-else statement) that decouples code deployments from feature releases. Developers have used some variation of feature flags for …

Improving flag usage in code

Read time: 10 minutes

Last edited: Sep 18, 2024

Overview

This guide provides best practices and suggestions for improving code that uses feature flags. These practices can improve both code quality and ease of maintenance.

You can use code in tandem with your feature flags …

Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control their software.

Theoretically, teams can engage in all four pillars of feature management without relying on a dedicated feature management tool. In many cases, engineers will construct a patchwork solution for feature flag management in-house. Some organizations, however …

What is Learn?

The Learn pillar of feature management focuses on enabling all teams to better understand how software changes affect users and systems. It is designed for the entire product delivery team: developers, DevOps and site reliability engineers (SREs), and product managers (PMs).

Of all the pillars, Learn is …

What is Operate?

Operate, the second of the Four Pillars of Feature Management, encompasses feature flag use cases that improve the operational health of your application. It entails making feature flags a mission-critical piece of your operations. As deployment speeds and infrastructural complexity go up, so does the need for …

Reducing technical debt from feature flags

Read time: 16 minutes

Last edited: Oct 15, 2024

Overview

This guide provides ways to reduce and eliminate technical debt related to feature flags using LaunchDarkly. Like all debt, technical debt accumulates over time, but you can mitigate that debt over time if you …