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## Backing Services
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Deis treats databases, caches, storage, messaging systems, and other
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[backing services][] as attached resources, in keeping with Twelve-Factor
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Workflow treats all persistent serivces such as databases, caches, storage,
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messaging systems, and other [backing services][] as resources managed
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separtely from your application. This philosophy aligns with Twelve-Factor
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best practices.
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Applications are attached to backing services using [environment variables][].
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Because applications are decoupled from backing services, apps are free to scale up independently,
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to swap services provided by other apps, or to switch to external or third-party vendor services.
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Because applications are decoupled from backing services, apps are free to
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scale up independently, to swap services provided by other apps, or to switch
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to external or third-party vendor services.
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## See Also
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* [Architecture](architecture.md)
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* [Twelve-Factor App][]
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[Build and Run]: http://12factor.net/build-release-run
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[Docker]: https://www.docker.com/
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[Kubernetes]: https://kubernetes.io

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