In the era of cloud-native architecture, Microservices have become a core pattern in software engineering. But Microservices are more than just "breaking down a monolith into several services." To truly make a system scalable, maintainable, and highly available, we need to follow a systematic design philosophy.
And this philosophy is the 12-Factor App principles (originally proposed by Heroku) – which remain a foundational methodology for building high-quality Microservices today.
This article combines modern technology ecosystems (such as Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, cloud services, etc.) to explain in detail how the 12-Factor App principles can be implemented and evolved in today's Microservice development.
10/22/25...About 4 min