A Developer's Journal: Simplifying the Twelve-Factor App

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • Vagrant

    Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

  • Tools like Docker and Vagrant can be used to allow local environments to mimic production environments.

  • RabbitMQ

    Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins

  • Messaging/Queueing Systems (Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd)

  • InfluxDB

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  • PostgreSQL

    Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

  • The app can use a local PostgreSQL and has no issues using a cloud service like Amazon RDS.

  • MySQL

    MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database.

  • Data Stores (Amazon RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL)

  • docker

    Docker - the open-source application container engine (by microsoft)

  • An alternative here is using Docker to build your application, then you can be sure that your app has access to packages in the operating system.

  • Redis

    Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

  • stores session state in a session store like Memcached or Redis.

  • Memcached

    memcached development tree

  • stores session state in a session store like Memcached or Redis.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • BeanstalkD

    Beanstalk is a simple, fast work queue.

  • Messaging/Queueing Systems (Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd)

  • amazon-sqs-java-messaging-lib

    This Amazon SQS Java Messaging Library holds the Java Message Service compatible classes, that are used for communicating with Amazon Simple Queue Service.

  • Messaging/Queueing Systems (Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd)

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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