Latest Risk mitigation posts

Protect yourself from vibe coding errors

Is AI-written code 100% trustworthy? Get control over vibe coding errors.

Why metrics for top engineering teams look different

Top engineering teams measure release health by looking at different metrics.

A false sense of security: Guardrails don’t prevent incidents

Tools alone aren't enough.

Self-healing software with release observability

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

HBR: Why modern software delivery needs a new risk playbook

Introducing Guardrail Metrics: best-practice metrics for every release

Automatically measure what matters on every Guarded Release.

What a recent cloud outage reminds us about control after deployment

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

RTO vs RPO: Key differences for modern disaster recovery

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

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

How innovative teams are transforming their release process.

Defining regression thresholds for guarded rollouts

Understanding thresholds helps you fine-tune your risk tolerance.

Live demo: Guarded Releases in action

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

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

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

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

Have you ever shipped code and immediately regretted it?

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

How to implement kill switch flags in a Flask application

Gentle deployments mitigate risky releases at AlayaCare

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

How to implement kill switch flags to a Spring Boot application

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.

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.

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.

Modernizing software delivery at Ally Financial

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

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?