Feature Flags: Everything You Need to Know Feature flagging is a software development technique that enables teams to make changes without deploying new code and allows for more controlled experimentation over the lifecycle of features. This is an excellent way to test new features before making them available to the public. A Quick Definition Turning on and off certain features…

Best Practices to Implement Continuous Testing Continuous testing is the process of executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline in order to identify potential business risks. Today, it is vital to update software as rapidly as possible. Continuous testing is evolving and extending test automation to address modern software development and delivery. Organizations…

Feature Flag Management: What to Look Out for in 2022 When implementing feature flags, choosing the right management platform is extremely important for the success of your flags, and your engineering team. …

Feature flagging tools are incredibly useful for development teams. With feature flag management, dev teams can push releases with confidence, get more done, and improve the user experience. …

When building DevCycle we were facing an issue where we had two different backends. We had one that was handling interactions with Auth0 and we wanted to move those calls from one backend to another. In order to move quickly during early development, we were communicating directly between our NextJS…

Nothing makes an engineer’s life harder than dealing with dreaded merge hell. Having to rewrite code and spending hours trying to merge into main is tiresome, stressful, and wastes engineering resources. Luckily, there’s a solution; Trunk-based development is a development strategy that only uses one branch. With trunk-based development, developers…

TLDR; DevCycle’s Project Insights feature shows the number of times your variables are being used and seen by your end-users This is a clear and easy way to QA and tracks where your features are being used, who’s using them, and how frequently Learn how to implement feature flags in 5…

Understanding the Feature Flag Lifecycle Feature flags are quickly becoming a popular alternative to traditional deployments. Feature flags allow for finer control over the deployment process. In the past, companies would deploy features to all their users at once. This may have been effective, but it was also unsafe and came with high levels of…

How To Use Feature Flags in Mobile Development A mobile engineer’s worst fear is rolling out a new version of their app with one minor mistake that has led to the app crashing. With the bug live to millions of users fixing the bug immediately is nearly impossible. It can take days or months to have a release…