LaunchDarkly Unveils Software Release Platform for the “Ship at the Speed of Now” Era
May 21 2024 - 1:00PM
LaunchDarkly, the platform that helps engineers build products that
customers love, set the stage for “shipping at the speed of now”
with today’s unveiling of groundbreaking features, empowering
engineering teams to streamline releases and accelerate the pace of
innovation. These capabilities were announced during the product
keynote at the company’s user conference, Galaxy ‘24, which is
taking place from May 21-22 in San Francisco.
During the Galaxy ‘24 product keynote on May 21, LaunchDarkly’s
CEO Dan Rogers and Chief Product Officer Claire Vo shared four
imperatives for organizations that want to ship at the speed of
now: 1) recognizing the critical role that developer experience
plays, 2) promoting safer release practices, 3) harnessing the
power of AI to drive organizational transformation, and 4)
accelerating overall innovation velocity. LaunchDarkly's Software
Release Platform now includes:
- Enterprise release management and automation
to empower engineering leaders to standardize and automate critical
aspects of the software release process through Release
Assistant. Additionally, the new LaunchDarkly
Command Line Interface (CLI), and a LaunchDarkly
extension for GitHub Copilot will enhance feature
management workflows, enabling smoother and more efficient
releases.
- Release Guardian, engineered to help teams
preemptively identify and rectify software performance issues
before they escalate into customer-facing problems. This proactive
approach will help ensure seamless user experiences, and enhance
overall reliability.
- Advanced Experimentation, which allows
engineering, product and data science teams to measure and optimize
the business impact of every release and feature.
- LaunchDarkly for the AI Engineer, including AI
Prompt and Model Templates, an AI Variation Builder, and a GenAI
Experiment Builder to facilitate building better experiments,
faster.
“Developers, engineers, and business leaders each have their own
distinct goals when it comes to building products. Engineering
teams are focused on removing bottlenecks so they can get back to
what they do best: building. Meanwhile, leaders are focused on
application stability and outshining the competition,” said Claire
Vo, CPO at LaunchDarkly. “When you add in AI and a push towards
automation, speed and risk both increase. Our aim with these new
product capabilities is to bridge these gaps to empower
cross-functional teams to ship great product and raise the bar for
how teams release software.”
Every industry is reliant on software and customers have come to
expect seamless experiences when interacting with a business’s
website and apps. As a result, innovation at every stage of
delivery is necessary for success. With the addition of new
capabilities focused on increasing the speed of innovation, the
LaunchDarkly platform equips engineers and developers with the
tools they need to build better, more stable products for their
customers without risk.
Galaxy is the leading event for software builders and DevOps
innovators. During this year’s two-day event at Pier 27 in San
Francisco, LaunchDarkly users attended hands-on workshops and
trainings to learn more about the platform’s features; heard from
guest speakers from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Rent the
Runway; and participated in an AI Hackathon sponsored by AWS.
To learn more about LaunchDarkly’s new product capabilities,
visit LaunchDarkly’s product blog. Additionally, to see the full
agenda and watch session replays from Galaxy ‘24 visit
launchdarkly.com/galaxy/.
About LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is a leading solution for the next generation of
business innovation. The company’s core services go beyond the
functionality of homegrown tools to build a bridge that connects
code directly to successful, impactful, and targeted customer
experiences. With LaunchDarkly, engineers can increase release
velocity by 9x, reduce service outages, and help ensure users get a
bug-free software experience. The most innovative companies,
including a quarter of the Fortune 500, build products that
customers love with LaunchDarkly. Learn more at
www.launchdarkly.com.
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