As software delivery speeds up, traditional monitoring tools often fall short—they’re reactive, not proactive, and rarely pinpoint which feature changes cause issues. Join Tom Totenberg, Solutions Engineer at LaunchDarkly, as he leads a panel discussion with Josh Nykamp and Shmuel Rosansky, two industry leaders on strategies for de-risking software releases. This fireside chat will explore real-world stories of mitigating risk without slowing down innovation. Our panelists will share their own first-hand experiences on balancing velocity with safety and responding to incidents effectively. We’ll also discuss how modern approaches, like Guarded Releases, are changing software release processes for the better. Whether you’re in engineering, product, or leadership, this discussion will give you actionable insights on building better release strategies.

Speed shouldn’t come at the cost of stability—but for most software development teams, it often does. 80% of incidents stem from new code changes, and teams using traditional monitoring often react too late.

Join Tim Cook, Group Product Manager at LaunchDarkly and Kellye King, Sr Product Marketing Manager, to see how Guarded Releases transforms the high-stakes gamble of software deployment into a smooth, controlled process by embedding proactive risk mitigation into every release. With capabilities like progressive rollouts, multi-dimensional targeting, auto rollbacks, and regression debugging, teams can deliver software safely, protect customer trust, and innovate faster at scale, without the late nights and firefighting.

You’ll also get a front-row seat for the latest enhancements to Guarded Releases, including smarter automation, deeper observability, and more control for engineering teams. These new features make the platform even more powerful for securing releases—which can help your teams get their nights and weekends back.

Product: Guarded Releases

Deploying features to all users simultaneously creates massive risk, and it’s easy to miss early warning signs that something is broken—because those warnings are hard to absorb amongst all the notification noise. When things break, scrambling to fix them can cause extensive downtime, which often erodes customer trust. What if you could prevent outages before they happen? In this workshop, you’ll get an up-close look at how Guarded Releases help you to make every deployment safe and controlled with progressive rollouts, performance monitoring, auto rollback/alert, and regression debugging.