Containers get a lot of headlines and it’s clear why. For the daily lives of developers, containers are revolutionary. Much in the same way that interpreted languages enable greater productivity than compiled ones, containers save developers precious time by allowing them to create a functional environment in seconds instead of tens of minutes with virtual machines. Reducing that cycle time lets developers spend more time coding and less time waiting for something to happen.
Architecturally, the microservices that containers more easily enable are equally groundbreaking. The ability to break a problem into smaller pieces is always beneficial in unexpected ways, and containers offer a way of doing that on a scale not possible before.
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