HACKER Q&A
📣 danwee

Is 12factor.net Still Relevant?


As far as I know it was created around 10 years ago, and it hasn't been updated since 2017.

Especially the section about Configuration management (https://12factor.net/config)

https://12factor.net


  👤 atmosx Accepted Answer ✓
In most cases, configuration via environment variables works fine. There are cases where it doesn't. E.g. 10k pods restarting because of a simple config change is not ideal. Better subscribe to an external system like "etcd" fetch and update the config without restarting the process.

👤 dylanhassinger
yes still relevant, i evangelize 12 factor in my organization

there are a few "12 factor revisited" posts out there that make good points


👤 anotherhue
it's still golden in terms of microservice architectures, though I feel that microservices were a mistake.

👤 _samjarman
Yup

👤 revskill
It's 15 factor now.