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OpenFeature vs. Proprietary Systems

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

Why is OpenFeature Support is Critical? Comparing Top OpenFeature Providers

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

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

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

DevCycle Product Updates (Q1 2025)

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

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

5 Steps to a Continuous Deployment Culture

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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

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

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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.

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

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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: How to Use Feature Flags to Drive SQLite Performance Tests

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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.

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

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

Product Updates

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

Product Updates

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

Product Updates

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

Product Updates

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 Launches Done Right

Introducing Feature Obfuscation: Dark Launches 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