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How to Deploy and Manage APIs with LaunchDarkly

What's this blog post about?

LaunchDarkly, a feature management platform, supports various SDKs for languages commonly associated with APIs such as Rust, Go, Javascript, and Python. This article discusses different ways to use LaunchDarkly to roll out new APIs and version existing ones using frontend flags. It covers dynamic address values, dynamic request functions, and the concept of "flags behind flags." Additionally, it explores managing API changes from within the API code itself, including dynamically handling query logic and adding functionality through flags. The article emphasizes that LaunchDarkly's SDK support allows feature flags to be integrated into many different types of APIs and applications.

Company
LaunchDarkly

Date published
April 25, 2023

Author(s)
Peter McCarron

Word count
2210

Language
English

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