LaunchDarkly CTO and cofounder John Kodumal sits down with Honeycomb Field CTO and industry expert, Liz Fong-Jones, to discuss the latest trends and best practices around releasing software. With years of experience working with engineering leaders across all industries, they’ll share perspectives on what drives high-performing teams and how to set developers up for success. 

This session will cover:

• Techniques modern software teams are adopting to reduce risk
• Creating a culture where developers can build their best software
• Feature management and observability as the secret sauce to safe releases

LaunchDarkly gives developers the ability to ship software faster by letting them control every part of a software release. In this live walkthrough of LaunchDarkly — we’ll show how we make this a reality. We’ll make concepts like “Test in production”, “Control your blast radius”, and “Instant Rollbacks” real by showing you how it all comes together. You’ll walk away understanding what first steps your teams can take to ship often and release faster, without compromising safety. 

• Preview how easy it is to deactivate broken code in the event of an error
• See how to roll new features out progressively to reduce risk 
• Discover ways to automate manual release workflows to save developers time and headaches

Software errors can cost a business upwards of millions of dollars per year. To reduce this risk, many teams rely on stressful, process-heavy release cycles that slow innovation. With feature management, there is a better way. Join leaders at BOK Financial and Datasite to learn how they empower their development teams to move faster without fear.  

This session will cover: 

• Using feature management as a safety net for innovation
• Streamlining releases to reduce stress and prioritize speed
• Strategies for scaling safe practices across your organization

Continuous deployment and experimentation allow organizations to de-risk deployments, test new features confidently, recover quickly from incidents, and accelerate release cycles. We’ll explore how Amazon Web Services (AWS) and large enterprises manage releases at massive scale.

This session will cover:

• Deployment strategies that reduce risk while maintaining speed and agility
• Ways automated rollbacks make incident recovery faster 
• Managing release cycles and mitigating risk at scale with large batch sizes