12 Factors: Revisiting the 4th Factor - Backing Services

Welcome to my blog! We continue with our series of study and review of the 12 factors for the development of modern applications, inspired by the books of the legendary Martin Fowler. In previous articles, we discussed the first three factors: Codebase, Dependency Management, and Configurations. Today, we will address the fourth factor: Backing Services Backing services are external resources used by your application, such as databases, messaging systems, caching services, and other APIs....

March 28, 2023 · 4 min · Luiz Ferreira