DevCycle

DevCycle

@devcyclehq.bsky.social

A #featureflag management platform built for developers 👩‍💻 🚩 | Part of the OpenFeature Ecosystem 🌎

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DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

🧑‍💻 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. blog.devcycle.com/why-feature-... #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by @markcallen.bsky.social

blog.devcycle.comWhy Feature Flags Are a Must in Every Engineering Manager’s ToolkitWhen 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 rea...
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

⏱️ 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. blog.devcycle.com/why-a-homegr... by @markcallen.bsky.social

blog.devcycle.comWhy a Homegrown Feature Flag System is a TrapFeature 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 conditiona...
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

✅ The era of smashing the big green yolo deploy button is over. When AI writes code, you don’t launch it wide. You wrap it in a flag. Ship to prod turned on for 3 people. Then roll it out. This is how AI code survives production. 🏕️ blog.devcycle.com/who-knew-fea... by @markcallen.bsky.social

blog.devcycle.comWho Knew Feature Flags Would Save AI CodingFrom "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 bu...
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

👾 Eng 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, validate sooner 🔥 If you’re still shipping big-bang style… you’re burning velocity blog.devcycle.com/why-feature-...

blog.devcycle.comWhy Feature Flags Are a Must in Every Engineering Manager’s ToolkitWhen 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 rea...
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

The real data is brutal: 30% of engineering time lost to DIY flag maintenance 🚧 73% of flags never removed 🔒 Thousands of hours per year of flag technical bloat 🫃 Homegrown feature flags aren’t lightweight. They’re a slow bleed. 🩸 🩸 🩸 blog.devcycle.com/why-a-homegr... by @markcallen.bsky.social

blog.devcycle.comWhy a Homegrown Feature Flag System is a TrapFeature 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 conditiona...
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

🔁 The modern dev loop (or cycle 😉) isn’t write → test → ship 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 🔥🚒. blog.devcycle.com/who-knew-fea... by @markcallen.bsky.social

blog.devcycle.comWho Knew Feature Flags Would Save AI CodingFrom "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 bu...
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

⚔️ 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. blog.devcycle.com/why-feature-... by @markcallen.bsky.social

blog.devcycle.comWhy Feature Flags Are a Must in Every Engineering Manager’s ToolkitWhen 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 rea...

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Andrew Norris
@andrewnorris.bsky.social

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. blog.devcycle.com/we-rebuilt-o...

blog.devcycle.comMCP Onboarding for Feature Flagging: 3x SDK InstallsWe rebuilt onboarding around the DevCycle MCP to accelerate feature flagging: IDE-first install in two prompts and 3x more SDK installs.

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Andrew Norris
@andrewnorris.bsky.social

We learned something big about onboarding: Even great tutorials can break if they pull developers away from their real workflow. So we rebuilt onboarding around MCP to bring DevCycle into the IDE. 3× more users now reach SDK install. How it works → blog.devcycle.com/we-rebuilt-o...

blog.devcycle.comMCP Onboarding for Feature Flagging: 3x SDK InstallsWe rebuilt onboarding around the DevCycle MCP to accelerate feature flagging: IDE-first install in two prompts and 3x more SDK installs.

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Andrew Norris
@andrewnorris.bsky.social

We rebuilt our onboarding around our MCP (Model Context Protocol). Now developers start in their editor — not a sandbox. ✅ 3× more SDK installs ⚡️ Faster time to value 🧠 Real product experience from the first prompt See how it works → blog.devcycle.com/we-rebuilt-o...

blog.devcycle.comMCP Onboarding for Feature Flagging: 3x SDK InstallsWe rebuilt onboarding around the DevCycle MCP to accelerate feature flagging: IDE-first install in two prompts and 3x more SDK installs.

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Andrew Norris
@andrewnorris.bsky.social

We killed our onboarding flow. 🛶 No sandbox. No example app. No “click next to learn more.” 📵 Just two natural-language prompts inside your editor — powered by MCP. ✍️ SDK installs tripled. 3️⃣🙅‍♂️ Sometimes the best tutorial is no tutorial at all. 🤫 blog.devcycle.com/we-rebuilt-o...

blog.devcycle.comMCP Onboarding for Feature Flagging: 3x SDK InstallsWe rebuilt onboarding around the DevCycle MCP to accelerate feature flagging: IDE-first install in two prompts and 3x more SDK installs.

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Andrew Norris
@andrewnorris.bsky.social

AI coding assistants just changed what “onboarding” means. With MCP, we moved DevCycle onboarding into VS Code, Cursor, Claude Code — wherever devs already work. 2 prompts → SDK installed → live feature flag. 3× higher activation. blog.devcycle.com/we-rebuilt-o... #MCP @devcyclehq.bsky.social

blog.devcycle.comMCP Onboarding for Feature Flagging: 3x SDK InstallsWe rebuilt onboarding around the DevCycle MCP to accelerate feature flagging: IDE-first install in two prompts and 3x more SDK installs.
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

🤖 Introducing AI-powered Feature Flagging! DevCycle now provides a hosted MCP server to allow you full control over your 🚩 across @cursor.com.web.brid.gy @windsurfai.bsky.social @claudeai.bsky.social and @vscode.dev blog.devcycle.com/introducing-...

blog.devcycle.comIntroducing the DevCycle MCP Server: Ship Flags Faster, Safely with AI Coding AgentsWhy 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 bac...
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

🕵🏻‍♂️🎛️ Which feature flagging provider has the widest support for @openfeature.dev? We’ve done the maths and checked the gits so you don’t have to; check-out the breakdown of providers here: blog.devcycle.com/comparing-to... #FeatureFlags #OpenStandards #OpenSource #DevTools

blog.devcycle.comTop 10 OpenFeature Providers ComparedDiscover the leading OpenFeature providers and learn how OpenFeature, the open standard for feature flags, empowers teams to avoid vendor lock-in, and future-proof feature management

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Jeremy Morrell
@jeremymorrell.dev

Damn, this is a perspective I wished I had thought of when writing jeremymorrell.dev/blog/opentel...

jeremymorrell.devOn OpenTelemetry and the value of Standards | Jeremy MorrellOpenTelemetry is not perfect, but the value of having one shared standard for instrumentation and telemetry is huge
Ben Vinegar@benv.ca

I was meh on standards efforts like @opentelemetry.io in the past, but this escalating trade war has radicalized me. I think API/SDK portability in developer SaaS products is going to be a bigger deal moving forward. @cdrux.bsky.social has a take on this here: blog.devcycle.com/open-standar...

blog.devcycle.comOpen Standards in a Trade War: Why You'll Need an Escape Hatch When Politics Hits Your StackOpen 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 abl...

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Ben Vinegar
@benv.ca

I was meh on standards efforts like @opentelemetry.io in the past, but this escalating trade war has radicalized me. I think API/SDK portability in developer SaaS products is going to be a bigger deal moving forward. @cdrux.bsky.social has a take on this here: blog.devcycle.com/open-standar...

blog.devcycle.comOpen Standards in a Trade War: Why You'll Need an Escape Hatch When Politics Hits Your StackOpen 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 abl...
DevCycle
@devcyclehq.bsky.social

At DevCycle, we believe in the protection from vendor lock-in that Open Standards provides. This is never more important than if software becomes the next trade war target. 🔐↔️🌎 blog.devcycle.com/open-standar...

blog.devcycle.comOpen Standards in a Trade War: Why You'll Need an Escape Hatch When Politics Hits Your StackOpen 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.

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DEV++ early bird pricing ends this month! Lock in your $8/month price now, even as we add value in the future. Here's just a few of the partner deals we've recently added: @devcyclehq.bsky.social feature flags for control and clarity Replit: cloud based IDE Ruul: the freelancer's pay button

dev.toEight New Partner Deals Join DEV++! Early-bird pricing ends this month.We've been quiet lately, but we've been hard at work behind the scenes adding substantial value to...