Latest Risk mitigation Posts

Self-healing software with release observability

Ship faster, sleep easier, and catch bugs before your customers do.

Kellye King

HBR: Why modern software delivery needs a new risk playbook

Kellye King

Introducing Guardrail Metrics: best-practice metrics for every release

Automatically measure what matters on every Guarded Release.

Eric Wang

What a recent cloud outage reminds us about control after deployment

A recent outage shows why deployment isn’t the finish line.

Chan How Law

RTO vs RPO: Key differences for modern disaster recovery

Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are fundamental metrics.

Jesse Sumrak

The real reason your releases feel like fire drills—and how to change this

How innovative teams are transforming their release process.

Chris Tarquini

Defining regression thresholds for guarded rollouts

Understanding thresholds helps you fine-tune your risk tolerance.

Diane Lu

Live demo: Guarded Releases in action

See a walk-through of how to get started with Guarded Releases.

Sarah Beldo

Welcome Highlight to LaunchDarkly: building the future of Guarded Releases together

Highlight's observability suite will help us revolutionize software releases.

Kellye King

Anxiety ends here: 5 mindset shifts that changed how I ship code

Have you ever shipped code and immediately regretted it?

Abram Thau

Transforming software development: Key findings from our Spring 2025 Customer Census

Emily Coleman

How to implement kill switch flags in a Flask application

Diane Phan

Gentle deployments mitigate risky releases at AlayaCare

Emily Coleman

Quickly disable external API calls in your Sinatra application using LaunchDarkly kill switch flags

Disable 3rd-party API calls in a Sinatra application using the LaunchDarkly Ruby SDK

Tilde Thurium

How to implement kill switch flags to a Spring Boot application

Diane Phan

Policies changing one day and being revoked the next? Adapt quickly using feature management

Feature management can help government agencies adapt to frequent policy changes.

Sara Mazer

Why I’ll never go back to the old way of deploying software

It's a safety net that lets you focus on building — not the fear of everything breaking.

Lucy Voigt

Software releases: navigating between innovation and user expectations

Our Field CTO Yadi Narayana discusses strategies for maintaining safe releases while still supporting a culture of innovation.

Yadi Narayana

Modernizing software delivery at Ally Financial

Megan Moore

7 key takeaways for software development teams from RedMonk’s James Governor

Sarah Beldo

Launch Week '24: Removing risk from every software release

LaunchDarkly believes the way most teams  release software is just plain broken — a rush to ship features and nothing to do but hope for the best. And this challenge is only magnified when it comes to building and shipping AI applications or trying to do something truly novel for your customers. But what if there was a way to move fast without sacrificing quality or performance? And what if–even better–this could all happen automatically?

Claire Vo

Introducing Guarded Releases: confidently innovate with safer, smarter software deployments

Kellye King

LaunchDarkly on LaunchDarkly: how we guard releases to build trust and mitigate risk

The Fundamentals Engineering Team at LaunchDarkly is responsible for building and refining a shared platform of core capabilities across internal product engineering teams. They work closely with product engineers to develop impactful features and products faster, which benefit internal teams and our customers alike.

LaunchDarkly

5 Strategies to De-Risk Software Releases in Retail & eCommerce

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