Stephen Downes

This post dates from 11 years ago (see also Wikipedia and 12Factor.net) but the concept was new to me (how often have I said that here!) though the actual advice isn't - and that's how I know it has good general applicability despite its age. I arrived on it while considering how to modernizing my web presence while at the same time making sure it's based in Canada. So of course I was looking at a service based in Finland where I found the reference. It's all the stuff I've struggled with over the years - having a single codebase, for example, using environment variables (Apache makes that a challenge), being clear about config, etc. This is the real stuff computer science programs teach, not just 'how to code'.