World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 26, 2026 • Session details

Earning the Right to Deploy: Netflix's Approach to Deployment Safety at Scale

Viswanathan Ranganathan

Are static deployment freezes crippling your engineering velocity? Learn how Netflix replaced broad lockdowns with a metric-driven system that grants deployment freedom by merit.

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2:58 min

Automating progressive rollouts and metric success analysis

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Prioritizing deployment safety over aggressive software shipping deadlines

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Balancing automated deployments with human infrastructure oversight

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Identifying bottlenecks in standard deployment pipelines

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Reducing release risk with progressive delivery techniques

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