What is a Twelve Factor Compliant App

Today, building software-as-a-service (SAAS) has become a common practice for web applications. The twelve-factor compliant is a methodology to build modern SAAS applications. The twelve-factor methodology does not related to any specific technology, language, or platform.

Here is a list of the twelve factors: 

  1. Codebase - One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys
  2. Dependencies - Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies
  3. Config - Store config in the environment
  4. Backing Services - Treat backing services as attached resources
  5. Build, release, run - Strictly separate build and run stages
  6. Processes - Execute the app as one or more stateless processes
  7. Port binding - Export services via port binding
  8. Concurrency - Scale out via the process model
  9. Disposability - Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown
  10. Dev/prod parity - Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible
  11. Logs - Treat logs as event streams
  12. Admin processes - Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes 

Learn more about the twelve-factor app here: http://12factor.net/

References:

http://12factor.net/

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