11 Tips for Migrating to LaunchDarkly

This article provides guidance on migrating from a homegrown or open-source feature flag management system to LaunchDarkly's platform. It highlights potential challenges such as addressing technical debt, prioritizing migrations across teams, and training team members. The migration process is divided into three phases: planning, executing, and post-migration. Tips for each phase are provided, including gradual migration, manageable timelines, choosing the right pilot team, standardizing a naming convention, keeping legacy flags in the legacy system, adding new flags to LaunchDarkly only, changing the wrapper not the calls, dividing into projects, defining your process, using tags, and asking for help. The article emphasizes the importance of planning before executing the migration to prevent technical debt accumulation.