Galaxy Talk: Migrating from a Homegrown Feature Flags System to LaunchDarkly

Rick Riensche, a senior software engineer at Autodesk, shares his experience migrating from a homegrown feature management solution called Flipper to LaunchDarkly following the acquisition of PlanGrid by Autodesk. The migration involved introducing data adapter shims for write and read operations, running in dual write mode initially, and then moving to exclusive use of LaunchDarkly. The team faced challenges such as rate limiting, misconceptions about flag evaluation methods, and issues with anonymous keys. Despite these hurdles, the migration was successful, resulting in a more functional and performant system.