Similar to my advice regarding OCSP Stapling for servers/server developers, based on questions I've received about "CT best practices," I wanted to write something similar for those writing server software. That is, this isn't targeted at server operators, but for those writing software like Apache, nginx, Caddy, etc.
At the most basic level, the deployment of Certificate Transparency to date has largely tried to focus the burden on CAs, rather than on server developers. If the CA is doing everything right,