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LaunchDarkly is an excellent tool for managing all your dynamic configurations. It allows you to easily set up rules that govern how configurations respond based on requests, which is incredibly helpful. Integration with any service is seamless, and implementing custom or fallback handling is straightforward. I use LaunchDarkly every day! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As LaunchDarkly supports adding complex rules, the evaluation latency would be directly proportional to the rule complexity, so the person who sets up different flags should be aware of the consequences, especially when the flag check is in the path of every request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's easy to use and supoport different types of values like Boolean, String, Number and even JSON. The SDKs are there to integrate in almost all the technologies. We use a lot of feature flags in different places like frontend and backend and it works seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The user's (IDs) can be set in the interface. Hence our IDs are UUIDs, they are not identifiable after adding them to the feature flag. Ideally, we should be able to put a "display text" along with the IDs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
LaunchDarkly excels at providing seamless feature flag management, enabling quick, controlled rollouts and real-time feature toggling without code redeploys. Its intuitive interface and robust integrations make managing features across environments a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The platform can be a bit pricey for smaller teams, and the learning curve for advanced features might be steep for new users. However, the value it offers justifies the cost for larger projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The UI is so easy to navigate. Managing feature flags for different environments in the same page is so seamless and allows engineers to quickly figure out which features are enabled in which environment in a service.
Setting up the feature flags in the code was extremely simple and allowed us to integrate it with all our systems since all tech stacks were supported.
Launchdarkly is also very budget friendly and is very great for new devs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not much to say when it comes to cons. Maybe more integrations with Slack and whatnot to alert if a flag was turned on or off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Ease of use via the SDK
- Ability to easily do A/B testing
- Deploy software faster while our QA teams catch up to testing
- Target different market segments efficiently with user profiles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Generally about feature flags: There is always technical debt to take care of Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We like the ability to manage our staging and production environemnts and to create different segments to manage the roll out of new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
you do have to create the segments for each envornmnet instead of sharing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
First thing I will go to when we need to roll out a feature or to control the access to a specific feature. The UI is also very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
You cannot schedule the feature flag to turn on / off at a specific time (maybe there is a way but not with our subscription level?) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like how easy it is to use LaunchDarkly. The time to onboard new engineers is very quick. It's great how everything is located in very intuitive places and it's not difficult to find what you're looking for. It's also great that it's easy to see what changes everyone is making - this is very important when a lot of people are making feature changes in prod. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The look and feel has recently changed and has made some things a bit harder to find, such as targeting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My team releases firmware for an embedded product with a relatively slow cadence (months between releases). LaunchDarkly allows us to include riskier features faster with the option to roll them out slowly and disable them or tweak operating parameters if issues are discovered. It's very nice to be able to make configuration changes via LaunchDarkly as well without having to release new firmware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There seem to be some gaps in the approval process for making production changes. It's possible this has been fixed and I'm not aware, but I know we've had issues in the past where we've enabled required approval for production changes to flags, yet users have been able to create brand new flags and bypass the approval process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Love how fast and quick it was to setup, and extremely easy to use.
- SDK and integration was smooth, and they customer support has been fabulous at all times.
- Their infrastructure is reliable, very stable and extremely performant.
- Best thing is their real-time flag change propagation, which happens in less than 200ms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- They sometimes perform drastic changes to the UI which breaks the intuitiveness and habits that have been built.
- Can get a bit expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
