This has been a long time coming. The 12-factors have guided us well, but the ecosystem has changed.

The point we're at now reminds me a lot of Java in 2010. Everything was complex--too complex--and the "best practices" led to operational toil. The 12-factor manifesto ushered in a period of simplification that brought us out of big enterprise web servers, and into containers with executable jar files.

Similarly, the cloud-native ecosystem is brimming with complexity. It's time to establish patterns that result in more scalable, portable, and maintainable apps. Updating the 12-factor is how we'll do it.

Heroku is turning the 12 factor manifesto into a community project and modernizing it. I posted my thoughts in a blog[1], and I'd love to hear what other people think!

[1] https://medium.com/@vishvananda/the-rebirth-of-twelve-factor...