• The idea and design philosophy that servers must be frequently destroyed and recreated using a base image. The pattern follows a tenet promoted by Martin Fowler that “a server should be like a phoenix, regularly rising from the ashes,” with “phoenix server” being attributed to Kornelis Sietsma. ↑ webglossary.info/x/p20n

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