Services and applications of the platform should be built ready to run in the cloud and take advantage of such features as autoscaling and other auxiliary components while maintaining portability within the application structure. Services should externalize configurations to account for such portability. Infrastructure as code should be employed. Services must expect to be deployed globally across multiple cloud data centers, and thus should externalize their localized values and internationalizeable application qualities. They should be stateless, and their data should be partitioned to
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