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After the LaunchDarkly Outage: Adding a Vendor-Neutral Abstraction Without a Full Migration

- 2 min read
Krishan Sharma
Founder and maintainer of FlagLint

A provider outage can expose how deeply application code depends on a single feature-flag SDK. OpenFeature creates a neutral application boundary without forcing teams to abandon LaunchDarkly.

This article walks through the local audit, migration preview, and CI enforcement path that lets teams add that boundary incrementally.

Why LaunchDarkly → OpenFeature Migrations Break in Production

- 3 min read
Krishan Sharma
Founder and maintainer of FlagLint

LaunchDarkly and OpenFeature both evaluate flags with three arguments, but the fallback and context positions are reversed. A naive codemod can produce valid-looking code that silently changes runtime behavior.

This article shows the argument-order trap and why FlagLint uses AST analysis before rewriting any call site.