June 2015 Summaries

LaunchDarkly introduces team support, allowing individual members to have their own login credentials instead of sharing them. Existing account holders can manage their teams through the account settings page, inviting or removing members as needed. The platform plans to add more features for teams in the future.

LaunchDarkly has raised $600,000 to advance its mission of helping software teams deliver better software faster through its continuous delivery platform. The company's feature flags as a service gives every software team the "superpowers" of engineering teams at Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn. Co-founded by two college friends, LaunchDarkly now has happy customers in private beta and is looking to expand its team with new hires in engineering, marketing, and developer evangelism. The company's investors have a deep understanding of the problem it solves and include founders of successful software companies like Flurry, Huddle, PhoneGap, Versly, Collaborate.com, Systems in Motion, and Akamai.

LaunchDarkly has updated its REST APIs to support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), enabling users to directly build web pages that call the company's APIs without needing a server proxy. Authenticated CORS calls can be made using token or session-based authentication, with the latter requiring the xhr request's withCredentials property to be set as true. Additionally, for security reasons, all POST, PATCH, and PUT requests must include a Content-Type of application/json.