Joe Kutner on the Twelve-Factor App

Joe Kutner, Software Architect for Heroku at Salesforce.com, discusses the twelve-factor app. The twelve-factor app is a methodology that aids development of modern apps that are portable, scalable, and maintainable. Host Kanchan Shringi spoke with Kutner about the origin of these principles; their continued and growing importance with advances in microservices, DevOps, and containerization; and why developers should adopt the principles to build modern apps.

Related Links

• The Twelve-factor website
• Joe Kutner’s Blog
• Joe’s Github
• Joe Kutner on Twitter @codefinger
• Joe’s talk on twelve-factor app
• “Beyond the Twelve-Factor App,” by Kevin Hoffman
• Sample App using twelve-factor principles with Docker and Node JS
• Docker Run

References by Public cloud vendors

• A dozen reasons why Cloud Run complies with the 12-Factor App methodology
• Building Microservices with the 12-Factor App Pattern on AWS
• What about Cloud-Native applications?
• Get your enterprise apps ready for the cloud
• Cloud Native Application Development – A New Computing Paradigm

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• Episode 268:Kief Morris on Infrastructure as Code (https://www.se-radio.net/2016/09/se-radio-episode-268-kief-morris-on-infrastructure-as-code/)
• Episode 220: Jon Gifford on logging and logging infrastructure
• Episode 375: Gabriel Gonzalez on configuration

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