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> James, the Co-Founder and CTO of Heroku, coined the term 12 factor app That would be Adam Wiggins, not James Lindenbaum, who published the 12 Factor App :) I
by bgentry 4y ago
> James, the Co-Founder and CTO of Heroku, coined the term 12 factor app
That would be Adam Wiggins, not James Lindenbaum, who published the 12 Factor App :) I know this because I was there when it happened, but also if you check the bottom of the 12 Factor website it’s quite clear:
> Written by Adam Wiggins
Also, this is not at all accurate:
> GitHub (formerly hosted on Heroku)
GitHub used Heroku for some stuff back then (like their original status site) but they absolutely never ran the core of GitHub on Heroku.
- leerob 4y agoThanks, I've updated the post!
- briandoll 4y agoGitHub was hosted on Engine Yard[0] in the early days, and as part of that deal had an Engine Yard banner in the footer. We then moved to Rackspace[1] for a few years until the first funding round in 2012 when we built out our own datacenter in earnest. [0]: https://github.blog/2008-05-07-rolling-with-engine-yard/ https://github.blog/2008-05-07-rolling-with-engine-yard/ [1]: https://github.blog/2009-09-15-github-is-moving-to-rackspace/ https://github.blog/2009-09-15-github-is-moving-to-rackspace...