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Case Study: LaunchDarkly cuts usage-data latency from 8 hours to seconds with Orb

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Key facts · TL;DR

Company

LaunchDarkly

Industry

Software

Challenge

Adding usage-based billing without a 4–6 month in-house build

Headline result

Instead of a 4–6 month in-house build, LaunchDarkly used Orb to surface usage data that previously took up to 8 hours in seconds.

Key results

Seconds

Usage data latency

previously up to 8 hours

4–6 months

In-house build avoided

estimated engineering effort

The challenge

LaunchDarkly, a feature-management platform trusted by 5,500+ enterprises including a quarter of the Fortune 500, wanted to add usage-based billing. Building it in-house was estimated at a minimum of 4–6 months of engineering effort with limited flexibility, and usage data could take up to 8 hours to appear.

The solution

LaunchDarkly implemented Orb, which supported its requirements out of the box and surfaced usage data in near real time.

“Orb was the only vendor that supported everything we needed—right out of the box.”
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Nate Graf
Senior Engineering Manager, LaunchDarkly

The results, in context

With Orb, usage data that previously took up to 8 hours to appear now shows within seconds. LaunchDarkly avoided an estimated 4–6 months of in-house billing engineering.

Products used

Orb Orb