World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

Months to minutes: Real world continuous deployment and its sustainability impact

Marcel Cremer

Slowing down releases doesn't reduce risk. It actually multiplies it. Learn how one team embraced continuous deployment to achieve 2.8 daily releases and slash their carbon footprint.

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#1 about 5 min

Achieving boring and safe software deployments

The safest software release is a routine event that happens naturally without fear or excessive planning.

#2 about 5 min

Navigating the emotional cycle of startup growth

Overconfidence in adding features leads to unmanageable complexity and broken deployment schedules.

#3 about 4 min

Reducing release frequency increases deployment risk

Delaying releases concentrates the blast radius of changes and expands work to fill available time.

#4 about 5 min

Building trust and accountability in continuous deployment

Shifting the responsibility of production readiness to developers and quality assurance engineers builds a reliable safety net.

#5 about 3 min

Eliminating bottlenecks with feature branch environments

Replacing a shared test environment with isolated feature branches prevents unfinished work from blocking critical hotfixes.

#6 about 4 min

Optimizing the software delivery value stream

Mapping the path from idea to production reveals that waiting time far exceeds actual development time.

#7 about 2 min

Preventing continuous surprise with feature flags

Using feature flags and controlled rollouts ensures product changes align with organizational readiness.

#8 about 3 min

Reducing environmental impact through automated environments

Shutting down temporary development clusters when not in use significantly reduces compute costs and carbon emissions.

#9 about 5 min

Transforming delivery cycles to remove uncertainty

Identifying and automating manual steps incrementally leads to multiple safe releases per day.

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