LaunchDarkly

Technology advancement is unstoppable and it is mapping all sectors including feature management. Due to altering technology, there are many challenges in the field of feature management that deals with modern software development. While when it comes to feature management platform LaunchDarkly is dominant in this field. Currently, the firm is assisting several leading software companies to build better software solutions in less time. Also, it serves 100 billion-plus feature flags on a daily basis. The company is working to deduct the risk of the software development cycle. 

Basically, the firm handles the complete feature lifecycle, starting from the concept to launch to the value of their clients. Because of the best management, LaunchDarkly is rise as a dominant feature management platform. In 2014, Edith Harbaugh and J. Kodumal set up the company. Today, it is serving more than 200 billion feature flags per day.

About LaunchDarkly 

The Oakland based feature Management Company worked to deploy code at any time. With LaunchDarkly it is possible even if a feature is not ready to be released to the audience. It is well-known as a company that powering the best software products. Additionally, the company raised 78 Million dollar funding in series A, B, and C. As well, LaunchDarkly is a partner with leading companies including Redpoint, Vertex, Threshold, Uncork, and Bloomberg. 

As per Cloud 100’s rising stars, the firm is honored as one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies. 

The Backstory of foundation

LaunchDarkly platform came into reality based on two different directions. One is Lean Startup, based on the idea to break features into smaller fragments. Then these features can represent to the customers and asking them for feedback. Another one was continuous deployment. That time, co-founder Edith was working in the field of project management. While another founder Jhon was working in the engineering field. They realized, that small and medium-size companies are far away from feature management for their business. 

When they research, they came up with the answer that these firms could not afford their own platform for feature management as the other IT giants. Like Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and many other big firms could build own feature management platform. But there is a need to do something for small and medium-sized firms. And so, they end up with one platform called LaunchDarkly, merging two ideas into a single platform. 

What LaunchDarkly do?

In the digital world full of competition, every company is based on software. However, it is needed to have fast and proper control over it. LaunchDarkly assists the companies in feature management in the launch, starting from the concept to maintain value. The firm has the best team that assists in controlling the complete feature life cycle as mention earlier. 

For this, the company uses a streaming architecture to serve feature flags in microseconds and this all flags are served locally.

Edith Harbaugh- LaunchDarkly’s co-founder and present CEO

She is the CEO of the company which is a leading feature management platform all over the planet. However, she is working in the field of product management for more than 10 years. The Oakland based company worked under her policies. In 2014, she successfully co-founded the firm with Jhon. Apart from that, she worked at Tripit in Product and Management. Also, her contribution to exploring EasyBloom’s business is considerable. Moreover, she worked as a Product Manager at Vignette. As well, Edith is the host of podcasts called To Be continuous. On this platform, she informs people about continuous delivery and software development. 

Educational Background

Harbaugh attended Harvey Mudd College for studying engineering in Bachelor of Science. Also, she attended Pomona College for pursuing a degree in Economics. She named several patents on her name in the field of portal deployment.  

John Kodumal- Co-founder and CTO

He is LaunchDarkly’s present CTO as well, the co-founder of the company. Before that, he worked as a development manager at Atlassian. As well, he served at Coverity as an architect. Coming to his education, Jhon attended UC Berkeley for his Ph.D. Jhon attended Harvey Mudd College to study BS. 

Bottom Line

Presently, several leading companies including CircleCI, AppDirect, as well GoPro uses LaunchDarkly for feature management. The company stands out from other competitors because of its best service. As well, the firm gives the option of feature management for small and medium firms that could not build own platform for this. In the present scenario, the company is serving more than 20 billion features with subscription control that is a long term too. However, recently the firm raised funding of 78 million dollar funding in series A, B, and C. Also, many leading companies are ready to invest in the LaunchDarkly.