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LaunchDarkly
Company blog · launchdarkly.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
LaunchDarkly is the company blog at launchdarkly.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2015, 60 different Hacker News readers have linked it 144 times, most often “Show HN: Feature flag management for feature lifecycle control”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link launchdarkly.com mostly in 'Who is hiring' posts listing its engineering and other roles. The linked pages describe a feature management platform that serves feature flags.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
LaunchDarkly helps teams safely manage code and AI agents in production with feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and runtime control.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Feature flag management for feature lifecycle control8 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2015-10-01
- /careers/7 people · 30 mentions · first linked 2018-07-02
- /4 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-01-20
- Myths of Reliability4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-01
- Testing in Production the Netflix Way4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-07-23
- 10 Days of Errors3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-26
- /careers.html2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2018-02-01
- The Billion Versions of Facebook You’ve Never Seen2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-14
- LaunchDarkly’s Evolution from Polling to Streaming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-03
- Benefits of Using “Monitoring Gateways” Architecture for Large-Scale IT Envs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-18
What Hacker News says?
LaunchDarkly | Mobile SDK Engineer | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Ruby SDK Engineer | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Software Engineer (Full-stack) | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Technical Consultant | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Technical Support Engineer | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | De…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things as a story · 138 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Visa transfers are possible, cannot sponsor new visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and GitHub, and…
Comment linking /careers.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Show HN: Feature flag management for feature lifecycle control as a story · 63 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Unable to sponsor visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and GitHub, and you'll have an immediate impac…
Comment linking /careers.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Feature Flags as a Service as a story · 56 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | Mobile SDK Engineer | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Ruby SDK Engineer | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Software Engineer (Full-stack) | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Solutions Architect | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Technical Support Engineer | Oakland, CA | https://launchdarkly.com/ LaunchDarkly | Dev…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Testing in Production the Netflix Way as a story · 18 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Unable to sponsor visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and GitHub, and you'll have an immediate impac…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Handling Data at the Edge with Cloudflare Workers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Distributed Systems Engineer + Software Engineer, Backend, Frontend and Fullstack + DevOps Engineer | Full-time | Cannot sponsor new visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Show HN: Booleans as a service as a story · 9 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Cannot sponsor new visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and GitHub, and you'll have an immediate impa…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Feature Management in Extraordinary Circumstances as a story · 7 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | Oakland, CA | Onsite | https://launchdarkly.com LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 25 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark laun…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Benefits of Using “Monitoring Gateways” Architecture for Large-Scale IT Envs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | Oakland, CA | Onsite | https://launchdarkly.com LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves hundreds of billions feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted Guide to Feature Flagging as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | Oakland, CA | Onsite | https://launchdarkly.com LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over a trillion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka "dark laun…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Benefits of Using “Monitoring Gateways” Architecture for Large-Scale IT Envs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Unable to sponsor visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and GitHub, and you'll have an immediate impac…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted Continuous, Incremental, Progressive Delivery–Pick Three as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Cannot sponsor new visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and GitHub, and you'll have an immediate impa…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted Operational (Feature) Flags Best Practices as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Mobile SDK Engineer | Full-time | Cannot sponsor new visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and GitHub, and you'll have an immediate imp…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted GitHub API Change Management via Feature Flags as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Oakland, CA | Software Engineers, Sales Development Representatives, Solutions Engineers, CSM & TAM, Marketing roles and many others | Full-time | Cannot sponsor new visas at the moment LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted The Time Our Provider Screwed Us as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLaunchDarkly - Remote First - HQ in Oakland, CA $3.2 billion valuation, Series D https://launchdarkly.com/careers/ Full Stack Engineer Backend Engineer Frontend Engineer Security Engineer Data Engineer Product Designer/Manager Tech Support - US, EMEA, or APAC
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Designing for Failure to Avoid Disaster as a story · 4 points
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