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The Twelve-Factor App
The classic twelve principles for building services that run portably: config in the environment, backing services as attached resources, logs as event streams, disposability and dev/prod parity. Data pipelines inherit these ideas whenever they run as jobs on shared infrastructure.
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| What | The classic twelve principles for building services that run portably: config in the environment, backing services as attached resources, logs as event streams, disposability and dev/prod parity. Data pipelines inherit these ideas whenever they run as jobs on shared infrastructure. |
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| Where | Engineering Foundations |
| Why | Short, canonical, and the shared vocabulary engineers reach for when arguing about config, logs and process design. |
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| Verification | community · Oct 23, 2026 |
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| Completeness | 58 |
| Trust multiplier | ×1.25 |
| Composite | 27.7 · adequate |
| Freshness | 1 days since last source check |
| License | CC-BY-3.0 |
| Security flags | none |
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