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Not Everything is an Experiment

Not Everything is an Experiment

Why are users different?
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Adam Zimman
The Time Our Provider Screwed Us

The Time Our Provider Screwed Us

In October we cohosted a special Test in Production session with Honeycomb.io. Since our monthly session fell one night before Halloween…
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Designing for Failure to Avoid Disaster

Designing for Failure to Avoid Disaster

Reliability of a service is a combination of availability and correctness. At LaunchDarkly, reliability is our number one priority. Over…
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The Billion Versions of Facebook You’ve Never Seen

The Billion Versions of Facebook You’ve Never Seen

At our July Test in Production Meetup we focused on testing systems and processes at scale. Girish Patangay, Manager and Engineer at…
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Testing in Production the Netflix Way

Testing in Production the Netflix Way

In June we focused our Test in Production Meetup around chaos engineering. Nora Jones, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, kicked off the…
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I Don’t Always Test My Code, But When I Do It’s In Production

I Don’t Always Test My Code, But When I Do It’s In Production

At our March Meetup Isaac Mosquera, CTO at Armory.io, joined us to talk about canary deployments. He shared lessons learned, best practices…
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Changing Your Engineering Culture Through People, Process and Technology

Changing Your Engineering Culture Through People, Process and Techn...

Guest post by Isaac Mosquera, Armory CTO and Co-Founder.
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Targeting Users with Feature Flags

Targeting Users with Feature Flags

Companies exploring feature management are looking for control over their releases. A common theme is using feature flags to rollout a…
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Hypothesis Driven Development for Software Engineers

Hypothesis Driven Development for Software Engineers

Last week I attended the QCon London conference from Monday to Wednesday. It was a thoroughly interesting and informative three days. The…
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Tonight We Monitor, For Tomorrow, We Test in Production!

Tonight We Monitor, For Tomorrow, We Test in Production!

In February Steven Czerwinski, Head of Engineering at Scalyr, spoke at our Test in Production Meetup. This session was focused on…
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Instrumenting CI Pipelines

Instrumenting CI Pipelines

In February, we invited New Relic Developer Advocate, Clay Smith, to our Test in Production Meetup to talk about instrumenting CI…
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Testing and Debugging in Production with Distributed Tracing

Testing and Debugging in Production with Distributed Tracing

At LaunchDarkly we host a monthly Meetup for anyone interested in testing in production. At our Meetup in February, we focused on…
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Visibility and Monitoring for Machine Learning Models

Visibility and Monitoring for Machine Learning Models

Josh Willis, an engineer at Slack, spoke at our January MeetUp about testing machine learning models in production. (If you’re interested…
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When a Necessary Evil becomes Indispensable: Testing in Production at Handshake

When a Necessary Evil becomes Indispensable: Testing in Production ...

In January at our Test in Production MeetUp, we invited Maria Verba, QA Automation Engineer at Handshake, to talk about why and how her…
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Testing Microservices: A Sane Approach Pre-Production & In Production

Testing Microservices: A Sane Approach Pre-Production & In Production

At LaunchDarkly we host a monthly MeetUp for anyone interested in testing in production. (If you’re interested in joining us, sign up…
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If You’re Going to Fail, Fail Safely

If You’re Going to Fail, Fail Safely

Harm mitigation is the flipside of risk reduction. Though we want to avoid bad things ever happening and bad choices from being made, we…
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What Makes a Failure a Disaster?

What Makes a Failure a Disaster?

It was December 31, 1999, and a young sysadmin had just bet her boss that their systems wouldn’t go down. The stakes were her job. She was…
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Toggle talk with Happy Co’s VP of Product Phill Claxton

Toggle talk with Happy Co’s VP of Product Phill Claxton

Phill Claxton has implemented feature flags in three different organizations. As a driving force on the business side, he’s seen his…
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Commit Go Code with Joy and Confidence

Commit Go Code with Joy and Confidence

Pre-commit in style with gogitix
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Andrew Brown
Growing up

Growing up

I’m a parent, so frequently the metaphors I use are about raising kids. This week, we announced that LaunchDarkly got our Series B…
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Heidi Waterhouse
Launched: Personal Access Tokens

Launched: Personal Access Tokens

LaunchDarkly users can now create personal API access tokens. Anyone who uses our API in an automated fashion knows they must authenticate…
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LaunchDarkly, #1 Feature Management Platform, Gets $21M in Series B Funding

LaunchDarkly, #1 Feature Management Platform, Gets $21M in Series B...

As founder and CEO of the leading feature management platform, I’ve seen how our customers use LaunchDarkly to help them innovate more…
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The Only Constant in Modern Infrastructure is Change

The Only Constant in Modern Infrastructure is Change

We all know what an audit log is…right? We think of the audit log as a chronological list of changes in a system. Martin Fowler defines it…
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Measure Twice, Launch Once

Measure Twice, Launch Once

You want all your developers to have access to the main trunk of code to deploy — that’s the point of trunk-based development. It’s…
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Heidi Waterhouse
Deploying Rapidly for Continuous Integration

Deploying Rapidly for Continuous Integration

Velocity is a great conference for ideas about where software and companies are going in the future. And I got a chance to talk with Mike…
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