This has been a long time coming. The 12-factors have guided us well, but the ecosystem has changed.<p>The point we're at now reminds me a lot of Java in 2010. Everything was complex--too complex--and the "best practices" led to operational toil. The 12-factor manifesto ushered in a period of simplification that brought us out of big enterprise web servers, and into containers with executable jar files.<p>Similarly, the cloud-native ecosystem is brimming with complexity. It's time to establish patterns that result in more scalable, portable, and maintainable apps. Updating the 12-factor is how we'll do it.
Heroku is turning the 12 factor manifesto into a community project and modernizing it. I posted my thoughts in a blog[1], and I'd love to hear what other people think!<p>[1] <a href="https://medium.com/@vishvananda/the-rebirth-of-twelve-factor-1551727e1cfc" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@vishvananda/the-rebirth-of-twelve-factor...</a>