LaunchDarkly Reviews

LaunchDarkly Review

Comments: LaunchDarkly has been a great tool for feature flagging and experimentation. It allows us to roll out features gradually, reducing risk and improving flexibility

Pros:

I think the way to change the feature flags is pretty easy

Cons:

I think the pricing could improve for small companies

LaunchDarkly is very helpful in test driven software developments.

Pros:

The most I like about the launch darkly is feature flag management. We can implement the launch darkly in our code when we are working on a agile methodology, it is easy to use the feature flags as it keeps track of your codebase with each and every feature development.

Cons:

Nothing I dislike about launch darkly as such. But when we are using a feature flag during production code deployment. More security features would be helpful.

Launchdarkly is convenient for feature flagging

Comments: Convenient and straightforward to integrate into a react-native environment for feature flagging. Allows us to keep dev work flowing and integrated while getting ready for launch.

Pros:

A convenient way to organize feature flagging for your applications.

Cons:

No particular cons stand out to me. It works the way it should.

A great feature flag tool!

Pros:

Easy to use for developers and friendly, being used in backend front and mobile - SDK are nice to use

Cons:

Flag depreciation could be much better if we had more details for the flags and calls. Also there could be a automation to help and encourage the FF depreciation

Best feature flag app I’ve found

Pros:

Easy to use, it has % roll outs, very easy to target whatever you want. Best in class “boolean as a service”.

Cons:

Nothing that comes to my mind that would be a con to LD

Awesome tool to get started with experimentation

Comments: We're using LaunchDarkly for experiments and continuous deployments, and it's working great for that.

Pros:

Launchdarkly is so easy to learn, and really easy to setup, at least with react and nodeJs. It has helped our development speed by a lot.

Cons:

Nothing to dislike really. Haven't found anything that I'm missing so far. Better integration to Segment would be nice to have.

LaunchDarkly makes continuous delivery using flags a breeze

Comments: We use LaunchDarkly to decouple Deployment and Release. We can focus on testing with the flag off initially - this should prove that the new code is not being called and existing functionality has not regressed. We can then be confident that master can be deployed to production at any time with the flag off without causing any problems. Once we have tested flag off we can focus on testing flag on to ensure the functionality is working. Once we are happy, we can then release the flag at whatever time suits the team and the business, and it is a non issue as there are no code deployments at release time.

Pros:

Being able to easily target individual or groups of users for internal or external testing is very powerful. Being able to quickly change these targeting rules, and the new feature of change requests to allow your change to be reviewed before being applied is great from a process point of view. The insights graph is fantastic at showing the variants that users are receiving and allows you to identify when a flag is ready to be removed.

Cons:

Some functionality like User Segments is very powerful but only available in the enterprise licence. The change request functionality is only optional at this time and cannot be enforced - ideally we would want changes to rules in production to only be allowed once they have been reviewed.

"LaunchDarkly is Lighting the business"

Comments: Deployment volumes are significantly increased in our organization and easy to manage.

Pros:

Reporting , analyzing and integration is much easy and end user efficacy is high while working with LD API.

Cons:

Overall nothing ti point out dark side of LD software

Awesome customer support and great features

Pros:

The customer support team is very hands on. Useful and customizable features

Cons:

I do not have any complaints, the team does a great job helping me with any gaps

Robust platform

Pros:

Great software overall! Speeds up the development process and increases code quality at the same time.

Cons:

Works perfectly for us, no issues were experienced.

Reach for the stars with LaunchDarkly

Pros:

Feature flagging is such a game changer and LaunchDarkly make it so easy. The UI and logic is incredibly easy to navigate and follow. Giving us the ability to test in production is huge and made such a difference to our production development.

Cons:

The API's are a little cumbersome to get our head around with the response properties not as clear as they could be. However once you have got your head around the terminology it is all good.

A great way to manage the availability of your new features until they are ready for production

Comments: Overall LaunchDarkly has been great for our development process. We can now break down new features into smaller tickets and deploy them bit by bit, holding off on production release until the entire feature is ready. In the event of bugs, we can quickly hide a feature until those bugs are addressed.

Pros:

LaunchDarkly makes it very easy to develop and deploy new features in small steps without worrying about its impact on your production environment. By being able to hide new features behind feature flags, you can employ a Work In Progress development model, allowing you to develop features with a continuous delivery method in mind

Cons:

It can be a bit tricky to implement the provider into your React application but once its established, using the LaunchDarkly hook couldn't be simpler

LaunchDarkly

Comments: We have been very pleased with LaunchDarkly and besides being able to turn off a feature in a split second, the ease of use to roll out features in multiple ways has provided a lot of value for us.

Pros:

* Being able to test in production using labels - before go live we can test in production * Being able to turn off a feature in a split second if there are issues. In some cases, we can revert back to an older working version of the feature * Being able to use percentage rollout. * Being able to rollout to certain markets and not all.

Cons:

* Certain ease of use features for large projects with lots of feature toggles - like bulk copy/delete etc... * Pricing model

Not my decision to drop.

Comments: Solid tools. Allowed us to deploy more safely.

Pros:

Flags were a valuable tool to safely deploy with many teams working on the same stack.

Cons:

No real issues with the software. I view the product as mature.

Great product. does what it's supposed to do.

Pros:

- integration was very simple - very reliable, never went down on us

Cons:

- the flags can be confusing from time to time but it seems to be a use case issue.

Simple feature-flag management

Pros:

Its’s easy to manage feature flags across multiple application environments, from development to production.

Cons:

If you want simple Boolean flags per environment, the available configuration options are a bit confusing or overwhelming at first.

LaunchDarkly Overall Usage review

Comments: Overall, has been a great experience working with LaunchDarkly and making use of Feature flags was never this easy.

Pros:

Ease of Use, excellent documentation, toggle of feature flags and API calls are way simplified than other tools can offer. And the support team was exceptionally helpful when needed.

Cons:

Roles assignments could have been a little more fine grained.

Great for launching beta features

Pros:

Great for rolling out features slowly for beta testing in production.

Cons:

The pricing is expensive to get enough users to make auditing sensible. Thats fine while we are developing but once we fully go to production we will need to pay a lot more money to get value from it.

Usable feature toggle service

Pros:

We adopted this last year and its been working well so far.

Cons:

Cost is probably a consideration for this.

great for feature flags

Pros:

Very easy for product managers and non technical people to easily deploy feature flags for some customers.

Cons:

Still requires a network call when first loaded which can increase response times on APIs

Simplified Delivery

Pros:

Straight forward platform and easy to use Dashboard broken down by sections make the overall scalability manageable for any size organization.

Cons:

Would like to see button on the flag in the tree view that provides overview similar to dashboard - across the environments.

Getting features out of the dark

Comments: Gave us a long trial to get started (extended multiple times), then once it was live it worked well.

Pros:

Fast setup, easy to learn interface, fast toggle of features

Cons:

Limited seats for developers/PMs/designers