> Do they expect you to restart when you switch backing services? Do they expect you to run all your internal traffic through load balancers? 12 Factor was pio

> Do they expect you to restart when you switch backing services? Do they expect you to run all your internal traffic through load balancers? 12 Factor was pioneered by Heroku, so yes. Edit: I don't understand the downvote. This is the factual answer. 12 Factor apps are supposed to delegate a lot of cross-cutting concerns to the platform, including the problem of "where does that service live?" and "can you give me another chunk of service?"