Twelve-Factor App

The Twelve-Factor App evolved from the experiences of engineers at Heroku. It is a list of patterns that are used in Cloud-Native application architectures.

It is important to note that an app here refers to a single deployable unit. Essentially, every microservice is an app (because each microservice is independently deployable).

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