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🇨🇦 I'm really proud of all the Canadian software products @modemdev is paying for:

- @withmantle → cap table management
- @MycroftIO → security + compliance
- @DevCycleHQ → feature management
- @1Password → pw + secrets sharing
- @venncanada → business banking

🧑‍💻 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-fl…
#FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by @markcallen

⏱️ 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-homegrow… #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by @markcallen

✅ 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. 🏕️

blog.devcycle.com/who-knew-featu… #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by @markcallen

👾 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

blog.devcycle.com/why-feature-fl…
#FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by @markcallen

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. 🩸 🩸 🩸

blog.devcycle.com/why-a-homegrow… #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by @markcallen

🔁 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 🔥🚒.

blog.devcycle.com/who-knew-featu… #FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by @markcallen

⚔️ 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-fl…
#FeatureFlags #SoftwareEng #EngManager by @markcallen

Integration Feature Flags to your dev workflow x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🥳 What’s new in Q2? Here’s all that’s been added to @DevCycleHQ in the last few months blog.devcycle.com/whats-new-in-q…

🧑‍💻Building your first MCP, lessons learned productizing a hackathon project blog.devcycle.com/devcycle-mcp-f…

🤖 Introducing AI-powered Feature Flagging! DevCycle now provides a hosted MCP server to allow you full control over your 🚩 across @cursor_ai @windsurf @claudeai and @code blog.devcycle.com/introducing-th…

Building @DevCycleHQ MCP server started off as one of my favourite hackathon projects we've ever done. But it took a lot of iteration to go from “it works” hackathon code to production-ready code. Here’s what we learned along the way (thread):

Feature Flag Lifecycle: Testing to Cleanup x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Whats Running Where: Feature Flag Visibility and Lifecycle x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Beyond Booleans: Variables, Targeting & Smarter Rollouts x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🏁🔓Break free of vendor lock-in by choosing a feature flagging solution that supports @OpenFeature 🔓🏁
blog.devcycle.com/openfeature-vs… #FeatureFlags #OpenSource #OpenStandards

When should you use Feature Flags x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🤳🏻🚴‍♂️ New DevCycle Live Video 🚴‍♂️🤳🏻 meet @EddyVinckk the founder of @BlogRecorder who shares his time from @AllThingsOpen in 2024 👋 youtube.com/shorts/PEkb6fs… #DevCycleLive #DevRel