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Ask HN: Is 12factor.net Still Relevant?

13 points by danwee ↗ HN
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)

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

atmosx
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.