Galaxy Brain: Live Traffic Routing and Creating a Culture of Experimentation

The blog post discusses how Favor Delivery, a Texas-based on-demand delivery platform, adopted LaunchDarkly to drive continuous delivery and customer value. Both Ivan Valle, Staff Software Engineer at Favor Delivery, and Daniel Kaparunakis, Senior Android Developer at Favor Delivery, shared their journey of adopting LaunchDarkly during a Galaxy session in Austin. They were hosted by Jonathan Nolen, SVP of Engineering and Product at LaunchDarkly. Favor discovered LaunchDarkly when they decided to move away from their home-built A/B testing service due to its limitations. The adoption of LaunchDarkly has brought several benefits for Favor including a UI, faster continuous delivery, and the ability to conduct extensive A/B testing. They also use feature flags to shift traffic in real time between contact centers without requiring engineering input or creating any impact on customers. Favor's adoption of LaunchDarkly has indirectly benefited their customers by allowing them to move faster and mitigate risks more effectively. The company advises others just starting with LaunchDarkly to have a process, start with smaller features, and expand use from one team to many gradually. They also highlight the surprising results of testing LaunchDarkly's scaling capabilities with 200 million requests in two weeks.