Separate Deploy from Release - Get all the benefits of agile development and continuous delivery without the risk. LaunchDarkly separates code deployment from feature releases, so you can ship code whenever you want without impacting end users.

Iterate Faster - Something magical happens when you’re able to develop and test features without fear. You iterate on features a lot faster and end up delivering incremental changes you know your users actually want rather than praying you got it right.

Safely Test in Production - Stop “soaking” your code in staging. With LaunchDarkly developers can use feature flags to safely test their code in production early and often, encouraging a culture of real-time testing and feedback. Testing with real, live users will always yield better data than any mock testing environment plus you get a real understanding of your feature’s effect on performance.

Targeted Rollouts - Canary launches, percentage rollouts, ring deployments, beta tests; we support them all. Release features to users at your own pace. Start small, gain confidence, and ease your way to 100%.

Migrate Infrastructure & Databases - Migrating infrastructure is scary but it doesn’t have to be. Use feature flags to safely build up your new infrastructure in production, alongside your old version, and test it every step of the way before you cut over 100%. By using feature flags you can mitigate risk during major upgrades like database migrations, switching cloud providers or swapping the implementation on an algorithm.

Sunset Unused Features - Feature flags are just as valuable for launching new functionality as they are for controlling when it’s time to say goodbye. At some point, old features will conflict with new features, or simply not be in use anymore. Use the LaunchDarkly platform to manage the entire lifecycle of your features including when you decide it’s time to retire a feature gracefully.

Upgrade Microservices & Tools- Adding feature flags to new microservices and tools gives teams complete control over their various services and provides options for a controlled rollout during upgrades. First, wrap the microservice with a feature flag, with all traffic going to the old version. Then, release a new version and gradually allow targeted traffic to the new service, allowing you to test and verify the functionality across your entire production stack.

Kill Switch - Stuff happens. What do you do when it starts affecting performance? You take action before it turns into a major incident. Turn off any feature or code path within 200ms using a click of the mouse (or API call). No need to stay up all night rolling back code and deploying emergency fixes. Plus with flag prerequisites, you can link features and services across applications together and take global control from a single switch.

Eliminate Risky Code & Bugs - No more waiting and wondering if there will be issues once a feature gets into your production systems. Test how well your code stands up, early and often. Expose new features to your internal teams and run sanity tests, smoke tests, and beta tests all from within production. Find the bugs and eliminate them earlier in the product delivery process.

Safety Valves - Long-term feature flags enable you to gracefully degrade non-critical functionality and maintain overall availability when you detect a problem. Just wrap your key features, microservices and 3rd party SaaS integrations with a feature flag, and you’ll be able to automatically switch to a failover option without having to push new code. Plus, if you’ve found the issue is isolated to one specific customer or region, instead of killing the service for every customer, simply update the targeting rules and remove access for those particular customers within 200ms.

Monitor & Troubleshoot Features - Advanced teams use LaunchDarkly's feature management platform to help troubleshoot and resolve issues in real-time, helping to create a culture of accountability. Developers can monitor their features and if they spot an issue, use the Audit Log to pinpoint the source of the incident, get a clear understanding of what took place, and take appropriate action (like hitting a kill switch).

Coordinated Releases - Create one centralized command center across all your applications to ensure consistent releases and global visibility. Use feature flag prerequisites to control granular features from a global level even if they are used within multiple applications or technology stacks. Turn everything off or on within 200 milliseconds, no matter where the code lives.

Change Configurations Dynamically - Dynamically change configurations at any time without redeploying or reconfiguring any part of your production application. By using multivariate feature flags for operational use cases you can dynamically scale things like your log levels or API event thresholds all in real-time. Instead of slowing down your application all of the time with hefty logs you can turn it on only when it's needed and even target those logs at specific customers or features that need investigation.

Product & Marketing Launches - - Reduce the burden on your development team by giving application owners dynamic control over feature releases. LaunchDarkly's intuitive dashboard makes it easy for product and marketing teams to segment and target specific users for beta tests and roll out new features when they are ready.