DevCycle

We’ve joined Dynatrace! 🚀 We are thrilled to announce that DevCycle has been acquired by Dynatrace! For the past 13 years, our team in Toronto has been driven by a simple premise: developers need to be able to move fast without breaking things. Today, we take a giant leap toward a future where feature delivery is not just faster, but radically safer and smarter. Why Dynatrace? It comes down to a shared DNA. We aren’t just joining a global leader; we are joining a partner that helped lead the OpenFeature movement alongside us. By unifying DevCycle’s runtime control with Dynatrace’s AI-powered observability, we are moving from simple visibility to true action. Together, we are closing the loop between change and outcome, enabling teams to automate remediation and confidently embrace the era of AI-native applications. To our customers and community: The DevCycle you know and love isn’t going anywhere. We are staying put, but now we have the resources to build the best Feature Management tool on the market—deeply integrated with the best Observability tool on the market. Thank you for being part of this journey. We’re just getting started. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eXSyD46A #DevCycle #Dynatrace #OpenFeature #DevOps #FeatureManagement #Acquisition #TechNews

🧑💻 Engineering managers: 😬 If every deploy makes your team nervous, the problem isn’t confidence — it’s tooling. 🧗 Feature flags turn production into a controlled environment, not a cliff edge. https://lnkd.in/esqHPr-f  #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by Mark Allen

⏱️ Every hour your engineers spend maintaining a homegrown feature flag system 🏗️ Is an hour they’re not building features users actually pay for. DIY flags aren’t free. 🐢 They’re paid for in lost velocity, focus, and morale. https://lnkd.in/eqWXpDfE #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by Mark Allen

✅ The era of smashing the big green deploy button and praying is over. When AI writes code, you don’t launch it wide. You wrap it in a feature flag. Ship to prod. Turn it on for 3 people. Watch it breathe. Then roll it out. This is how AI code survives production. 🏕️ https://lnkd.in/da5eDB8W #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by Mark Allen

👾 Engineering teams don’t slow down because of code 🐌 They slow down because every deployment is treated like a launch 🏎️ Feature flags fix that 👯♂️ Decouple deploy from release → ship faster, fear less, validate sooner 🔥 If you’re still shipping big-bang style… you’re burning velocity https://lnkd.in/esqHPr-f  #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by Mark Allen

The real data is brutal: • 30% of engineering time lost to DIY flag maintenance 🚧 • 73% of flags never removed 🔒 • Thousands of hours per year navigating flag technical debt and bloat 🫃 Homegrown feature flags aren’t “lightweight.” They’re a slow bleed. 🩸 🩸 🩸 https://lnkd.in/eqWXpDfE #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by Mark Allen

🔁 The modern dev loop (or cycle 😉) isn’t write → test → ship anymore. It’s: 🤖 generate → 🏁wrap behind feature flag → 🚀 deploy → 🍰 test on a tiny slice → 🛼 roll out 🏃💨 That loop is why AI-driven teams ship faster without lighting prod on 🔥🚒. https://lnkd.in/da5eDB8W #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by Mark Allen

⚔️ Most teams think they have a product/engineering alignment problem. 🏁 Really, they just don’t have feature flags. 🎚️ Flags turn launches into decisions, not deployments—PMs own timing, engineers own flow, and everyone sleeps better. https://lnkd.in/esqHPr-f  #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by Mark Allen

I’ve always wrestled with building meaningful frontend + backend demos. Nothing breaks the illusion faster than fake auth flows or placeholder tokens. In the real world, we rely on proper JWTs; therefore, our demos should reflect that. To fix the gap, I built a small Express middleware that issues real JWTs for an email address, mimicking a lightweight IDP. With that, I’ve taken the next step and created an example app using OpenFeature and DevCycle across both the frontend and the backend. The app uses middleware to generate the token and pass it through the stack, end-to-end evaluating the user's feature flags as you would in a real app. If this helps you, I’d love a ⭐ or two and PRs are always welcome. #DevOps #FeatureFlags #OpenFeature #DevCycle #NodeJS #JavaScript #SoftwareEngineering #DevEx

6 months ago our onboarding looked “fine.” Nice UI, polished tutorial, solid drop-off rates. But devs still weren’t hitting SDK install. So we nuked the tutorial and rebuilt around MCP — where onboarding happens in your editor. 3× more installs. https://lnkd.in/gGShAmhK