DevCycle Blog

Why a Homegrown Feature Flag System is a Trap

Feature flags empower teams to ship code safely, experiment quickly, and decouple deploys from releases. At first glance, building your own feature flag system seems like a quick win: a few conditionals in your code, a simple database table, and you’re off to the races. But reality sets in

Who Knew Feature Flags Would Save AI Coding

From "good enough" to production‑ready, fast When a new component glows in your IDE, and your AI assistant says, "Ready for deployment." What do you do? You could launch it wide, hit the big green button, and pray for no fires. But you don'

Why Feature Flags Are a Must in Every Engineering Manager’s Toolkit

When I first stepped into an engineering manager role, I quickly learned that moving fast without losing control is one of the hardest balances to strike. Feature flags helped me make that balance real. Here’s how, and why, you should treat feature flags not as a “nice-to-have,” but a

What We Shipped in Q3: User Debug Tools, AI-Generated Features and More 🚀

In the last few months we’ve released a ton of upgrades including; a suite of debugging functionality, powerful AI-assisted tooling and new observability integrations. Combined, this functionality makes it even easier to understand how your features behave in production. 🧩 User Debug Tools The new suite of Debug Tools: Evaluation

We Rebuilt Our Onboarding Around MCP: The Result, 3X SDK Installs

TL;DR * We rebuilt onboarding around our MCP (Model‑Context‑Protocol) integration so developers start inside their editor with our SDK—not a detour through example apps or sandboxes. * Early results: ~3× more users reach SDK install versus our previous flow, and they see real product value sooner. * This piece

What’s New in Q2: AI-Powered Flag Management, Debugging Insights, and Smoother Rollouts 🚀

Over the past quarter, we’ve rolled out new features and improvements designed to help you build, test, and release with more control and visibility. Here’s everything new in DevCycle! 🤖 Meet DevCycle’s MCP Server We’re thrilled to announce the availability of the DevCycle MCP Server! The MCP

Product Updates

From Hackathon to Production: What It Took to Ship Our DevCycle MCP

When we started building our MCP server, it began as a simple hackathon project: take our existing CLI interface, which already has authentication and most of our API calls, and adapt it to work as an MCP server. As a hackathon project, it turned out to be a pretty compelling

Introducing the DevCycle MCP Server: Ship Flags Faster, Safely with AI Coding Agents

Why we built a MCP server for DevCycle AI coding environments and agents are great at writing code—but the moment you need to create a feature flag, tweak targeting, or check an audit log, you’re back to context‑switching: open the dashboard, copy keys, run a CLI, paste

DevCycle is Now SOC 2 Type II Compliant

We're excited to announce that as of December 2024, DevCycle has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance! SOC 2 Type II compliance represents a critical milestone in our commitment to security and privacy, demonstrating our rigorous adherence to the highest standards of trust and reliability. What is SOC

OpenFeature vs. Proprietary Systems

Breaking Down Vendor Lock-In Risks and Future-Proofing Your Stack Introduction: The Double-Edged Sword of Feature Flagging Feature flagging has become a cornerstone of agile software development, enabling trunk-based development, streamlined A/B testing, improved incident management, and safe, gradual feature releases. Its capacity to deliver value to engineering teams is

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Why is OpenFeature Support is Critical? Comparing Top OpenFeature Providers

Feature flagging is essential for modern software development, enabling teams to test in production, manage releases incrementally, and mitigate risks, by separating code deploys from the release of features to users. As adoption grows, standardization via OpenFeature—an open specification for feature flags—becomes crucial to avoid vendor lock-in, simplify

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OpenFeature Multi-Provider: Enabling New Feature Flagging Use-Cases (Video)

What is OpenFeature and the Multi-Provider? What Are Some Use Cases? Watch DevCycle’s Co-Founder and CTO, Jonathan Norris, as he highlights the capabilities and unique use cases enabled by the OpenFeature Multi-Provider. Learn about OpenFeature, the Multi-Provider and about use cases such as combining multiple feature flag vendors under

Product Updates

DevCycle Product Updates (Q1 2025)

Find out what's new at DevCycle, including stale flag alerts, project level RBAC and enhancements to targeting. Welcome to your Q1 2025 DevCycle product update! We’ve rolled out a ton of exciting improvements in the past few months — from powerful new lifecycle tools to better access management

Using Feature Flags to Build a Better AI

In a world where AI is becoming increasingly prevalent in applications, there is a need to ensure that the AI is accurate. We hear a lot about failures with chatbots going rogue, image generators showing physically incorrect images, and generally wrong answers to simple questions. So, how can you ensure

Guides and Tutorials

5 Steps to a Continuous Deployment Culture

Deploying software into production so that your users can access it is one of the key areas of software development. Whether you are a two-person start-up using the latest tools and frameworks, a small business integrating multiple SaaS applications, or an enterprise business with 40 years of legacy systems to

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OpenFeature Hackathon 2024

A few times a year at DevCycle, we hit pause on our usual work, push aside our roadmaps, and dive into a few days of rapid experimentation and collaboration. For our first hackathon of 2025, we opted for an OpenFeature theme —a chance to explore new ideas, test bold concepts,

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How Jackson Used DevCycle and OpenFeature to Achieve a Zero-Downtime Migration

Today's DevCycle Spotlight features Jackson Kasi, a developer who won the OpenFeature Aficionado prize for our first ever DevCycle Feature Flag Challenge on Dev.to where we challenged developers to build a fun or creative project using DevCycle! Jackson won the OpenFeature Aficionado prize for the most innovative

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Open Standards in a Trade War: Why You'll Need an Escape Hatch When Politics Hits Your Stack

Open Standards have never been more important. In a world with impending trade wars globally, it's likely that software will be taxed and restricted. Going forward it is going to be critical to be able to rip and replace software if the winds of geopolitics shift in the wrong direction.

Unleashing Creativity: How Ansell Built Cycle Doodle Using DevCycle

Today's DevCycle Spotlight features Ansell Maximilian, a developer who won the first DevCycle Feature Flag Challenge on Dev.to! The challenge encouraged entrants to build a fun and creative project using DevCycle. He took the top prize with his inventive Cycle Doodle project. Judges loved the creativity of

Guides and Tutorials

How to Use Devcycle to Configure Your Pieces-Powered Generative AI App

This blog post explains using DevCycle to configure a generative AI app with Pieces , focusing on a Star Wars-themed copilot. It covers managing LLM configurations with feature flags for quick experimentation and highlights the benefits of using LLM abstractions for efficient model integration.

Guides and Tutorials

Creating a Star Trek-Inspired GenAI Copilot Using Pieces and DevCycle

In this post, we show you how DevCycle and Pieces for Developers make experimenting with AI as smooth as a warp-speed jump.

Guides and Tutorials

Beam Me Up, SQLite: Running Real-Time Performance Experiments with DevCycle

This post guides you through setting up an engineering-led experiment to compare the performance of SQLite (local), Turso, and SQLiteCloud using the SQLite Trek app and DevCycle.

Guides and Tutorials

Set Phasers to Experiment: How to Use Feature Flags to Drive SQLite Performance Tests

In this blog post, we explore how feature flags are essential for effective experimentation and introduce a practical example of performance testing across different SQLite options to showcase DevCycle's experimentation capabilities.

Case Studies Featured

IGS Case Study - Using DevCycle in a Cloud-Based Microservices Architecture

About IGS Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) is a pioneering company in the vertical farming industry, specializing in the development of advanced vertical farming towers. Their new and innovative approaches optimize agricultural productivity by using vertical space and technology to maximize crop yield and quality. IGS initially considered using flagd but

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Recipe for Change: Unlocking Feature Flag Flexibility in a Hyperapp with OpenFeature and the Multi-Provider Utility

Are your feature flags as flexible as they could be? If they are hard-coded static configurations, the answer is likely no. In this guide, we'll explore how OpenFeature can unlock the full potential of feature flags using a fun (although maybe impractical) example—a Recipe Manager app where

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