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OpenFeature Hackathon 2024

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,

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

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

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

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

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

How to use DevCycle to configure your Pieces-powered Generative AI app

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Set Phasers to Experiment: Using Feature Flags to Drive SQLite Performance Tests

Set Phasers to Experiment: Using 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.

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

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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

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

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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

July 2024 Changelog

July 2024 Changelog

At DevCycle, we're committed to delivering powerful feature management solutions that empower teams to safely and easily control their feature releases. In this blog post, we're excited to share two significant updates that will enhance your experience with DevCycle: Approval Workflows and a Vercel Edge Config

Migrating from In-House Feature Flagging with OpenFeature

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Migrating from In-House Feature Flagging with OpenFeature

Discover how the OpenFeature standard and new Multi-Provider utility can help you migrate away from your in-house flagging solution.

June 2024 Changelog

June 2024 Changelog

Welcome to our monthly changelog, where we share the latest feature updates and improvements from DevCycle. We're excited to bring you two significant updates that will enhance your feature management experience: OpenFeature Multi-Provider and the Web Debugger. To see more of what's coming or to request

OpenFeature Multi-Provider Release

OpenFeature Multi-Provider Release

May 2024 Changelog

May 2024 Changelog

Welcome to our May changelog, where we share the latest feature updates and improvements from DevCycle. This month, we've focused on enhancing our integrations, improving performance for server-side rendering, and introducing a new way to manage complex schedules and variations with Passthrough Rollouts. If you want to read

Planting a (Feature) Flag at the Summit: Extending AlpineJS with OpenFeature & DevCycle

Planting a (Feature) Flag at the Summit: Extending AlpineJS with OpenFeature & DevCycle

Learn how to build a simple plugin that adds OpenFeature compliant feature flagging functionality to AlpineJS using the DevCycle Javascript SDK.

Serving Up Feature Flags on an Airtable with OpenFeature

Serving Up Feature Flags on an Airtable with OpenFeature

In this blog post, I'll show you how to build a simple AirTable Provider for OpenFeature so you can upgrade from that quick snack to a more "filling" feature flag system, all while securing your seat at the DevCycle Buffet.

April 2024 Changelog

April 2024 Changelog

Spring is in the air and we've got our April edition of the monthly changelog for you. This month features a DevCycle App for Slack, one of our most requested features, along with quite a few other improvements. Check out the details below. 🧵 DevCycle App for Slack We

Netlify Case Study - A Nearly Painless Migration to DevCycle from LaunchDarkly

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Netlify Case Study - A Nearly Painless Migration to DevCycle from LaunchDarkly

Netlify is a leading front-end platform known for its innovative web development solutions that power thousands of websites all around the web. Continuously releasing new features to their developer community quickly and reliably is an integral part of the business where speed and accuracy are of great importance. In this

Introducing Feature Obfuscation: dark launching done right

Introducing Feature Obfuscation: dark launching done right

Why it's hard to truly dark launch Feature flags are often used to hide upcoming features before release; this is the core premise of a dark launch. The idea is that you remove a feature from view or access in the UI and that is enough to conceal

March 2024 Changelog

March 2024 Changelog

The snow is melting and we've got a small but mighty set of new functionality for you this month. 🥷 Feature Obfuscation Feature flags are often used to hide upcoming features before release. Normally, not showing the feature on a UI is enough to conceal it from users. However,

DevCycle Co-founder Jonathan Norris Elected to OpenFeature Governance Committee as DevCycle Achieves Comprehensive OpenFeature SDK Support

DevCycle Co-founder Jonathan Norris Elected to OpenFeature Governance Committee as DevCycle Achieves Comprehensive OpenFeature SDK Support

At Kubecon Paris 2024, DevCycle announces that Co-founder and CTO, Jonathan Norris, has been elected to the OpenFeature Governance Committee as DevCycle achieves comprehensive OpenFeature SDK support. This appointment solidifies DevCycle’s deep commitment to the OpenFeature project.

Jason Barry @ Netlify Talks Migrating to DevCycle

Jason Barry @ Netlify Talks Migrating to DevCycle

Jason Barry, Senior Staff Frontend Engineer at Netlify shares the development strategies they used to make their feature flag platform migration an easy one.

How OpenFeature was the key to escaping Feature Flag vendor lock-in: A Vue.js story

How OpenFeature was the key to escaping Feature Flag vendor lock-in: A Vue.js story

Discover how we effortlessly transitioned a VueJS project to a new feature flag Provider in just a few lines of code thanks to OpenFeature.

February 2024 Changelog

February 2024 Changelog

Welcome to February's edition of our product changelog. We had updates both big and small to the platform in the rare 29 days of February. This month primarily featured some updates to our Lifecycle functionality, as well as some great work on our SDKs. Feature Archiving We’re